"Turkish fiction
Friday, September 22, 2006, Page A16
Turkey is a country caught between two worlds. It is a largely Muslim nation, and yet it has a secular government, one that has always been aligned with the West. It was a founding member of the United Nations and belongs to both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. But it is not a member of the European Union, in part because of concerns about the country's commitment to such democratic principles as freedom of speech."
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