"Obstacles in Turkey's path
It came as no surprise when the European Union recently suspended some of its planned membership talks with Turkey. The sticking points pertain to the strained relations between Turkey and Cyprus, which have long threatened to undermine Turkey's membership bid. What is surprising — and dismaying — is that the Union is treating this as primarily a legal problem. That's a distortion."
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