"Bitter debate over Turkey's EU bid
On eve of talks, the EU remained at odds over opening doors to Turkey.
By Mark Rice-Oxley
LONDON – Europeans haven't agonized this much about Turkey since the Ottoman Empire was unravelling 100 years ago.
The geopolitics may have been very different in the age of kaisers and sultans, of imperial gambits and gunboat diplomacy. But one central question has persisted: What sort of alliance should bind Europe to the very different civilization on its eastern doorstep?"
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