"Common Ground: In Brussels we trust?
By IPAK RUZCAN
ANKARA, Turkey, March 10 (UPI) -- In a few weeks' time Turkish and European Union officials will sit down for the European Union entry talks, during which over thirty 'chapters' of European norms and standards will be discussed and reviewed. Turkey will have to comply with all of them before it can join the club.
The first session, covering standards and norms in science and research, will no doubt prove to be relatively unproblematic. But Ankara knows all too well that it is just a matter of time before such thorny issues as religious freedoms and human rights come up for discussion. For the Alevis, a cultural and religious group facing religious discrimination in Turkey, there is hope that the negotiations will bring needed relief."
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