"Between Turkey and Europe: why friendship is welcome
Murat Belge
15 - 12 - 2004
Turkey's possible admission to the European Union is often framed in terms of what's good for Europe. But what do Europeans know of Turkey and what of Europe is good for Turkey? Surveying more than fifty years of transformation, one of Turkey's leading journalists charts how the military, reformists, business, leftists, Islamists and others have struggled to define Turkey's future, and asks how it is that social conservatives now find themselves in a leading role for integration to the progressive European project. For Turkey to succeed, he says, foreign NGOs must help their counterparts in Turkish civil society. "
More:Between Turkey and Europe: why friendship is welcome Murat Belge - openDemocracy