"Turkey waiting for EU
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, October 9, 2005
Eighteen years after it applied for membership in the European Union, Turkey and EU diplomats have begun formal negotiations on the application. The talks may take 10 years, but it is important that eventually Turkey be admitted.
The Muslim world is torn by a struggle between the peaceable majority and intolerant fundamentalists who seek religious rule under a new caliphate eventually embracing the whole world. Nothing would go further to convince Muslims that they have nothing to fear and everything to gain from modernity and the West in general, and secular government in particular, than the recognition of Turkey as a full member of Europe. "
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