"Erdoğan’s Strasbourg spurt
Thursday, April 14, 2011
SERGÜL TAŞDEMİR
Three months ago, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan clearly stated in a Newsweek article that Turkey was no longer a “country that would wait at the European Union’s door like a docile supplicant.” In the same article, “The Robust Man of Europe,” Erdoğan claimed that Turkey needed the EU as much as the EU needed Turkey – a sentiment he repeated Wednesday in the European Council Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg"
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