EU should consider 'partial' Turkish membership
Turkish Daily News Jul 02, 2008
"EU should consider 'partial' Turkish membership
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Burak BEKDİL
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been toying with the idea of Club Med for formal Turkish integration into Europe, while the Turks want full membership. Looking at the dynamics of the amusing political bias the Europeans increasingly exhibit in favor of “parts of Turkey” it could be worthy to contemplate a partial Turkish membership in place of full accession.In the meantime, European Union leaders could be tempted to consider suspending France's full membership over remarks by Bernard Koucher, the foreign minister of Voltaire's homeland, that the Turkish military played a very important role for democracy and for the separation of the state and mosque."
"EU should consider 'partial' Turkish membership
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Burak BEKDİL
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been toying with the idea of Club Med for formal Turkish integration into Europe, while the Turks want full membership. Looking at the dynamics of the amusing political bias the Europeans increasingly exhibit in favor of “parts of Turkey” it could be worthy to contemplate a partial Turkish membership in place of full accession.In the meantime, European Union leaders could be tempted to consider suspending France's full membership over remarks by Bernard Koucher, the foreign minister of Voltaire's homeland, that the Turkish military played a very important role for democracy and for the separation of the state and mosque."
