EU 'faces backlash from Turkey
Hmmm this could be an argument for pro-TR circles within the EU to scare the anti-TR, but I am not sure if it is effective any more. Without the EU process, ultranationalism will invade the ground and I don't think the establishment is that anxious with this. As "islamofascism" is the main enemy, some important circles here and there wouldn't mind that invasion in the short run. I might be exaggerating and pessimistic though.
The European Union is risking an Islamic backlash in Turkey, the EU's enlargement commissioner says....:
EU 'faces backlash from Turkey'
Network Europe:
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widespread ignorance about who MEPs are and what they do. The big future
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president......
divide into two camps that approach European integration at different
speeds.........
The EU factor in Turkey’s elections by Beril Dedeoğlu
From Mustafa Akyol:
* Atilla Yayla and The Emperor’s Latest Clothes
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Mustafa Akyol's speech at The Council on Foreign Relations entitled as “Turkey’s Political Battle: Secularism vs. Democracy”
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Cem Uzan and Turkish Imperialisme
Pamuk's Dis-orient: Reassembling Kafka's Castle in Snow (2002)
This article analyses the circuitous relationships between Franz Kafka's last novel The Castle and Orhan Pamuk's 2002 Snow. Though Pamuk's "political novel" does not mention Kafka's hero by name, K.'s pursuit of the domain of Count Westwest in The Castle lays the rhetorical groundwork for Pamuk's narrative about Turkish modernity and political Islam. Snow is designed around a pyramid-like series of imbrications--ranging from Kafka's "K." to Pamuk's hero "Ka" to the novel's Turkish title "Kar" to the Eastern Turkish city of "Kars"--a poetic Verschachtelung that upends the traditional binary terms "East" and "West.".......
