Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Turkey's long road to a reawakening - Europe - International Herald Tribune

"Turkey's long road to a reawakening

ISTANBUL: Turkey has spent most of its young life wrestling with questions of identity. Is it eastern, like its Muslim neighbors, or western, like Europe? Now, after a series of events and images that have left Muslims around the world feeling set upon by the West - the invasion of Iraq, the prisons at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, whose visit to Turkey this week set off protests here - young people in Turkey are coming up with some answers."

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