Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Is Turkey turning its face towards the East?

"Is Turkey turning its face towards the East?

The relation between Turkey and Europe is not a “Self and Other” dichotomy. Humanity has already reached the ethical state of seeing the “other” as a constitutive element of the “self.” Leave aside the internally consistent claims that without Turkey Europe cannot be a global player; without Turkey Europe is not Europe; and without Europe Turkey is not Turkey."

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