"Deconstructing Ankara
By Costas Iordanidis
The comments at Istanbul�s military academy last week by Turkey�s top general, who called the European Union an �intermediary� of the separatist Kurdistan Workers� Party (PKK) and warned that �we now see the kind of pressure Turkey will face in its accession negotiations,� were particularly revealing as to the hardline establishment�s stance on the issue.
The remarks by General Hilmi Ozkok, chief of the military general staff, who unlike successive governments represents the steadier, hardline establishment, underscored Ankara�s skepticism toward the bloc."
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