"Losing Turkey?
Perhaps our most important ally, left hanging in Iraq, and increasingly abandoned by a myopic Europe:
Mutual hostility between Turks and some countries in the European Union has risen in recent years. According to a recent poll conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Compagnia di San Paolo, an Italian foundation, 49 percent of people in France, and 43 percent of people in Germany, where there is widespread hostility toward the country's large number of immigrant Turks, regard the prospect of Turkish membership as a "bad thing," while a mere 40 percent of Turks support membership in the union—a big drop from the 73-percent figure for 2004. "
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