"From far-right to far-left, anti-EU Turkey speaks the same language 14/12/2004
The 20 percent of Turks who oppose their country's European ambitions may speak on the issue with one voice but they come from both extremes of the country's political spectrum. 'There is no reason for Turkey to become a part of the European Union -- it can only become a province or a colony of Europe,' argues Dogu Perincek, a veteran Maoist militant and president of the Workers' Party (IP). His far-left group, which has no parliamentary representation, is fiercely anti-EU, but, Perincek adds, 'not anti-Europe.' The same message can be heard from the other end of the political spectrum. 'It will mean the end of the Turkish Republic as we know it,' warns Mehmet Sandir, vice president of the far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP). 'It will be something completely different,' he told AFP. Perincek believes that Turkey, a Muslim-majority nation of more than 70 million people, 'must keep its head high' and not be subjugated by EU countries whose leaders, Ankara hopes, will invite it to start membership talks at the end of thir Brussels summit Friday. "
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