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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The New Anatolian - Huseyin Bagci - Turkish foreign and security policy analysis (II)

"Turkish foreign and security policy analysis (II)
Huseyin Bagci

bagci@metu.edu.tr
04 January 2007

In the second part of last year there was a big expectation that a 'train crash' was imminent in Turkish-European Union relations since Turkey was accused of failing to do its best to carry on the reform process in the first part.

Turkey's reform fatigue is a fact. After hard negotiations with the EU over the course of the last couple of years, the Turkish government concentrated on reducing anti-EU sentiments among the people in light of the sharp fall in public support for the EU bid, which was estimated late last year as 35 percent, a all-time low."

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