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10/19/09

Politics Daily: Turkey's Identity Crisis Keeping It From Western Europe's Embrace -- by Matt Lewis

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Turkey's Identity Crisis Keeping It From Western Europe's Embrace -- by Matt Lewis

On one hand, Turkey is a thriving secular democracy with its most important city, Istanbul, rivaling New York City in terms of culture and energy. On the other hand, Turkey still struggles with fundamental problems of identity that have been part of the psychic landscape for as long as modern Turkey has been a nation. What's more, these problems continue to deprive Turkey from winning approval to join the European Union The public relations campaign to win EU approval actually illustrates the problem.

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