"Turkey's post-modern identity crisis
By M K Bhadrakumar
Three apparently unconnected events last week brought to the fore Turkey's crisis of identity and highlighted the tortuous path of the country's bid for European Union membership.
The tangled relationship between Turkey and the European Union played out in three separate capitals on October 12. In Stockholm the Swedish Academy announced that Orhan Pamuk became the first Turkish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. "
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