"Missteps hobble Turkey-EU waltz
A French proposal to ban any suggestion that Armenians did not suffer genocide is just one of the sour notes.
By Peter Ford and Yigal Schleifer
PARIS AND ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Barely six months after the European Union ended years of indecision by starting talks aimed at allowing Turkey to join the club, doubts about the wisdom of that move are coming to the fore on both sides of the table.
A series of well-publicized court cases, including one Tuesday, against Turkish writers has made Europeans wonder anew whether Ankara really shares their understanding of freedom of speech. Many Turks, meanwhile, see a double standard over head scarf bans and a proposed French law that would ban any suggestion that the Armenians did not suffer genocide in 1915."
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