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Turkey and Europe | Pulling the rug out from under? | Economist.com

"Pulling the rug out from under?

Nov 9th 2006 | ANKARA AND ISTANBUL
From The Economist print edition
Another European Commission report, another crisis in the European Union's relations with Turkey

“THE reform demands of the great powers never end.” So wrote Abulhamid II, a sultan who ruled the Ottoman empire in its dying days. This belief, shared by millions of citizens of modern Turkey, will have been strengthened by the European Commission's latest progress report on Turkey's membership, unveiled in Brussels on November 8th."

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