"Turkey's Western ways
TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Tulin Daloglu
October 28, 2005
Last Thursday, while the European Union began its process of assessing Turkey's compatibility with EU law, the U.N. investigative report on the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri came out, concluding that the Syrians played a high-level role in the bombing.
Turks still doubt whether they will ever be accepted as a EU full member. German Chancellor-elect Angela Merkel said last week that she favors a privileged partnership despite the full-membership talks granted to Turkey on Oct 3. Although Austrian resistance to allowing Turkey to start the membership talks ended happily, their long-term memory -- remembering the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 -- was worth a million. "
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