"E.U. Bid Keeps Turkey on Path of Reform
Goal Is Distant, But Pressure Isn't
By Karl Vick
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, October 5, 2005; Page A19
ISTANBUL, Oct. 4 -- Turks say they know the negotiations that formally opened in Luxembourg a few moments after midnight Tuesday morning may not end with Turkey actually joining the European Union.
'The biggest problem, to start with, is that we're Muslims,' said Rabia Yasar, 18, to the nods of fellow students on an Istanbul street."
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