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As the religious leaders all said the day before in Istanbul, all wars are for power and money. Religion is just used as a excuse for the greed of people in power. The same thing is valid for Turkey's bid for the EU. Some European countries are not willing to share their power with a country of 70 million with the youngest population and therefore the greatest potential in Europe. The point is that Europe needs us more than we need them. Europe is constantly aging and their youth are degerating rapidly into parasites on social support from the government. People are not willing to work as hard as they did after the World Wars and it will be inpossible for Europe to continue its upward growth trend with its current population. The problem comes here. We have a huge number of talented and well educated people willing to work long hours to succeed. Engineering and management are the most popular professions in this country in which one must study for years to be able to beat an annual 1.5 million equally hard working high school students wanting to go to a limited number of good universities. The University Entrance Exam system handles that very objectively and all universities whether private or state-owned must do their admission through the Student Selection and Placement Center which is an independent government body that uses only exam scores and school selections to place students. Good universities only accept the creme-de-la-creme of these 1.5 million people and how much or how little money you have has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you will be admitted. In fact, not having the money to go to a good school is an advantage in the scoring system. A number of good private universities also offer full scholarships to students with good scores in the university exams that have selected them and these scholarships are financed by the paying rich kids.