"Fried TurkeyHow it lost its shot at the European Union.
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2007, at 4:54 PM ET
In Istanbul last Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the nomination of Abdullah Gul as president of Turkey. In Paris next Sunday, Nicolas Sarkozy will very likely be elected president of France. These two events are geographically distant but closely connected in political terms. Together they explain a bald fact of life: Turkey is not going to join the European Union. And they also illustrate one more contradiction—and failure—of the neoconservative project."
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