"Does Turkey See the United States or Europe as a More Reliable Partner?
Turkey must move fast to avoid EU setbacks - International Herald Tribune
Turkey faces testing year ahead
After a year of political upheaval, 2008 will test Turkey's ability to reform, writes the BBC's Sarah Rainsford.Does Turkey See the United States or Europe as a More Reliable Partner?
Bulent Kenes opines in Today’s Zaman that US support for Turkey’s military operations against the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) is a breakthrough for Turkish sovereignty:
During the years of the Cold War, there could be nothing more normal for Turkey, an ally of the US, than to conform to the global policies determined by the US, the super power of the Western bloc that it belonged to in the bipolar system. However, the US wanted to maintain this habit even after the end of the bipolar system when the Cold War ended...No freedom of religion in Turkey...
In Turkey, the freedom in need of expansion is freedom of religion. While each of the issues that is currently on the agenda is a priority issue, each also touches on a broader question which remains off the agenda: freedom of religion and belief in Turkey itself.Turkey shelves accession to world criminal court
Turkey, under pressure from the European Union to accede to a key international treaty on the International Criminal Court (ICC), has decided not to do so in the foreseeable future, amid concerns that it could undermine efforts against terrorism."Fear or being misinformed?
Below you will find a comment of a British friend of mine who lives in the Netherlands.I don't say that I agree or disagree with him, but it shows how bad the Turkish Republic is doing its PR, relying on the USA to enter the EU.
Europe: Uncomfortable with Muslim Turkey
Subhash ChopraImmigration and the settlement of new arrivals in any society or country always throws up umpteen difficulties, which sometimes turn into substantial problems. Europe has been facing such problems for quite some time now. Some of them have their roots in the old race- or colour-related issues while others are of more recent origin.
The European Union, Turkish Limitations, and American Disinterest
Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyAbstract
The purpose of this paper is threefold: First, to note an unspoken, but obvious fact. The European Union is a living organism that functions with relative success at several levels: legal, economic and monetary in particular. Second, the threat to the EU is from its very success, a desire to overreach natural and functional boundaries by including nation-states with profoundly different structures ands goals. Third, this paper seeks to awaken the policy making bodies in North America to the emergence of regional force in most of Europe that is by varying degrees complementary to US interests and at the same time competitive to the present notion of hegemony. The EU along with the US illustrates the power of bipolarity in the West. The issue of Turkish entrance indicates the limitations of such a condition."
Turkish Images: An Austrian look at the Turkish image in Europe
