"VIEW: Turkey's destiny in Europe -Jonathan Power
Why should Turkey slide into modern-day fundamentalism? Turkey and Indonesia, two of the three largest Muslim countries, have tolerance in their bones. Fundamentalism Al Qaeda-style will find thin soil for its seeds here. Roots of the present Turkish government's fundamentalism are deep in religion, but in the sense that drives it to resist corruption and to preserve moral standards in family life
"Some frontiers are only in the imagination", wrote Jan Morris in her remarkable book, Fifty Years of Europe. Prince Metternich used to say the frontier of Asia was at the Landstrasse, the street which ran towards Hungary, away from Vienna's city walls. It was also said that Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of Germany after World War II, held similar feelings about Prussia. He was a Rhinelander, and whenever his train crossed the Elbe, on its way eastward to Berlin, he too would groan, �Hier beginnt Asia�, and pull the blinds down.
We cannot help but ask, "What is Europe?""
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