"EU will suspend negotiations if AKP is shut down
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Mehmet Ali Birand
The scenario is already being written.
Furthermore, the European Union is not acting out of a bent objective to help Turkey turn into a religious state bound by Islamic Law, so that it gives up full EU membership. Regardless of whether we like and accept it or not, they don't believe that the AKP has a secret agenda. What they believe is that in a democratic regime, it should not be so easy to close down a political party that was brought to power by 47 percent of the electors. European public opinion generally believes that the AKP is to be subjected to a judiciary coup in preparation. "
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