"Relaunching Turkey's EU dream By Hugh Pope, Special to Gulf News Published: August 23, 2007, 23:28 When a half-century of convergence between Turkey and the European Union last floundered a decade ago, the Turks regrouped and forged forward, and the EU met them halfway. The result was a revolutionary period of reform. Last month, grateful for Turkey's most fruitful period of political stability for decades, the electorate gave a resounding 46.7 per cent vote of confidence in the ruling, pro-reform AK Party."
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