"One year on, Turkey faces EU derailment
October 1, 2006
By Paul Taylor, European Affairs Editor
BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A year after Turkey's historic opening of negotiations to join the European Union, it is hard to escape a mood of gloom and mutual estrangement.
A growing number of Europeans are not sure they want the vast, poor, overwhelmingly Muslim country to join, according to opinion polls, and an increasing number of Turks feel the EU is treating them unfairly and are looking eastwards to Iran."
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