"Turkey: welcome to Europe
By Ignacio Ramonet
THE debate about Turkey's impending membership of the European Union - planned for 2015 - has been characterised by overblown rhetoric and lack of finesse. Framed in terms of the 'clash of civilisations', it testifies to the identity crisis of western societies when faced with Islam. It also reveals the anti-Islamic sentiment lurking in almost every sector of the political classes."
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