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5/15/06

What is happening to the EU?

Turkish Daily News May 15, 2006

"What is happening to the EU?
Monday, May 15, 2006
Doğu Ergil

Turkey was so enthusiastic in joining a club that it thought would be a global heavyweight, generous enough to share its wisdom and high humanitarian ideals as well as its craft in the production of wealth, solving intractable problems by using soft power and the logic of conciliation. On the other hand Europe boasted of its lofty civilization that for centuries it tried to spread to backward or �savage� populations throughout the world by force and destruction if necessary. This was a call to everyone or to every society to be �European.� After all, they had nothing to lose but their �primitive� culture and �ancient� civilization. European civilization was �heaven� with open doors; everyone was invited to join. Turks naively answered the call because they sincerely believed in the superiority of the �European civilization and thought most of their lingering problems "

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