"Europe Continues to Send Mixed Signals To Turkey
VOA 06/07/2005 04:12
Geographically, Turkey is mostly in Asia. Less than five percent of its land is actually part of the European continent.
Yet many publications such as The Economist magazine print stories about Turkey in their European column, not in their Middle East or Asian sections. Some Turks wistfully refer to Europe as the "old soil" - a throwback to the Ottoman days when Sultans in Istanbul ruled much of the Balkan Peninsula."
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