Europeans in no mood to welcome Turkey
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Chicago Tribune - For most Europeans, the recent recommendation of the European Union's executive body to open membership talks with Turkey goes a step too far.
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.
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The European Union (EU) should not link any more conditions to starting accession negotiations with Turkey, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Wednesday.
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Turkey's PM accuses the EU of treating Turkey unfairly by deciding to slow down membership talks.
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Turkey has been the most persistent supplicant at the European Union&#39;s gates and its passage through them will be protracted and tortuous.
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A European Union commissioner Wednesday recommended partially suspending membership talks with Turkey to protest Ankara's continued refusal to open its ports to EU member Cyprus.Comment
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has voiced misgivings about Turkey joining the EU, asking if Europe really wanted &#39;the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism&#39;.
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Turkey refused to comment on reports that it will open one sea port and one airport to Cyprus to resolve a trade row that is threatening to derail its accession talks with the European Union.
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For many in Turkey, the visiting pontiff personifies the mounting hostility they feel from Europe
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PARIS Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, touring Europe to drum up support for membership in the European Union, on Thursday criticized plans by several countries to let domestic referendums eventually decide his country&#39;s future.
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One says admitting Turkey to the European Union would spread Islamic radicalism throughout the continent. Another calls Britain America's slavish "spear-carrier" and bemoans Europeans' image in Washington as "sanctimonious wimps."
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A furor in Turkey ignited by the title of a Christian spiritual leader on a U.S. embassy invitation has underscored concerns about the largely Muslim country's treatment of minorities two weeks before the European Union decides whether to open membership talks with Ankara.
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A rift has emerged between the US and Europe over how harshly to deal with Iran and its suspect nuclear program. The Europeans are ignoring American suggestions and circulating their own recommendations to
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The European Union is risking an Islamic backlash in Turkey, the EU's enlargement commissioner says.
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Just the prospect of admitting Turkey, a Muslim country of 71 million people, into the European Union has set off a fierce debate over the nature of European identity.
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Despite public opposition in France and Germany, the two country&#39;s leaders have again expressed support for Turkey&#39;s quest for EU membership during a brief summit in Berlin.
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France prevents the EU starting membership talks with Turkey on economic and monetary policy.