"These were things that Turks were accustomed not to address all these decades.
According to Cengiz Candar,Turks are now realising that Turkey must make concessions regarding Cyprus, accept the Armenian claims of genocide by the Ottoman Turks in 1915, and accede to EU pressure on dealing with its minorities.
He says:
"It seems like it‘s very painful for Turks to redefine their identity according to EU norms."
Turkish Chauvanist/nationalist organizations are allowing Turkey's uneuropean underbelly to show.
