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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

A time of turbulence for Turkey?

"A time of turbulence for Turkey?

Whichever way you look at it, Turkey slowly seems to be beset by an increasing number of internal and external political pressures that are destabilising its economic outlook. The EU admission debate is increasingly swinging away from Turkish entry, and comments from French presidential candidate Nicholas Sarkozy underline the growing unwillingness of EU member states to accept Turkey as a member. “Seventy-five million people live in Turkey. This number will rise to 100 million in 25 years. This is a very big population and culture but [Turkey] is not European… Shall we build Europe with those who are not Europeans?”, Sakozy said in a recent television interview."

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