"Turkey is the Loser
I turned on the television to watch the evening news on Tuesday, May 24. The top news item concerned the appointment of State Minister Ali Babacan as chief negotiator for Turkey in accession talks with the European Union (EU), due to start on October 3. His appointment was received generally very positively. Bahadir Kaleagasi, the Brussels representative of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD), even described Mr. Babacan as a 'chief negotiator with full EU standards.' The news continued with remarks made by Justice Minister Cemil Cicek in response to what Istanbul Deputy Sukru Elekdag of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and Aksaray Deputy Ramazan Toprak of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) said about the conference on 'Ottoman Armenians During the Decline of the Empire: Scientific Responsibility and Issues of Democracy' (in which I too was scheduled to speak at a panel) organized by the Bogazici, Sabanci and Bilgi Universities on May 25- 27. "
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