[SunkenCiv]

Turkey against EU membership at 'any cost'
by Honor Mahony
November 11, 2004
EU Observer

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has said that his country should not pursue membership of the EU at "any cost"... Referring to the decision next month by EU leaders on whether to open membership negotiations with Turkey, the foreign minister said "we will do our best and see what happens ... If the outcome does not satisfy us, we will leave it there; if it does we will go on". Mr Gul told MPs that the EU was wary of admitting a country as vast as Turkey but was forced to consider the issue when Ankara conducted a series of reforms in order to adhere to the EU's political criteria... "But we cannot accept an unconditional and indefinite absence of free movement from Turkey to another country".

I like the EU Observer site for content, but it has a constant popup window, and the scripts seem to run a long time as the windows load.

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[conservlib]

Turkey was secular state for several generation. That did not help change the minds of the neighboring Arab States. The opposite is correct, the radical Muslim states manged to drag Secular Turkey into the pit of hate, and fanaticism.