"Turkey and neo-Europe
By Claude Salhani
The United States has been pushing 'old Europe' hard, petitioning the European Union to accept Turkey � a NATO member and a major U.S. ally � into the Brussels club. Washington hopes to see Turkey become the newest addition to what it calls the 'new Europe.'
As such, Washington hopes Turkey will join the small European group of countries espousing a friendlier attitude toward U.S. foreign policy. Washington also hopes Turkey, a nation of some 70 million Muslims, would moderate between predominantly Christian Europe and the United States and the Middle East and the Muslim world. "
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