"An EU without Turkey will Resemble 'Medieval Europe'
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Certain groups claim that Turkey's full membership to the European Union will profoundly damage "Europeanness" to the point that the notion of European will no longer exist. For instance in the Declaration of the "No Turkish Membership in EU" Campaign the opponents argue that Turkey is belong to the East and Islam, not Europe: "Turkey is not a European country. The Orient and the Islam are until now not really part of Europe, and we don't want to change that." Obviously, according to this claim, Turks are not European.
But who is European?
What is Europe? and where is it? "
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