"ANALYSIS-EU dream has already turned sour for some Turks
29 Sep 2005 10:20:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Jon Hemming
ISTANBUL, Sept 29 (Reuters) - It may take 10 years before Turkey joins the European Union, but even at this nascent stage of negotiations EU demands have inflamed Turkish nationalism.
The constant stream of criticism from the European Union has revived memories of Western meddling in the 19th and early 20th centuries that put an end to Turkey's empire and, but for a nationalist uprising, would have dismembered Turkey itself.
'The whole issue of nationalism represents the most difficult and the deepest gap between Turkey and the EU,' said one Turkey-based EU diplomat."
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