"The dark side of Turkey's dream
Poverty and pollution cloud Turkey's bid to join the EU
Jonny Dymond
Sunday December 19, 2004
The Observer
More than 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) from the the conference centre in Brussels where Turkey's European destiny was hammered out on Friday sits the city of Kars, in the far north-east of the country. From Kars you can see Turkey's borders with Armenia and Georgia, frontiers which, if negotiations are successful, will form the eastern edge of the European Union a decade from now. "
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