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[Jerry]

I think, in most respects, this by the usually hostile FT hits the nail on the head as far as Turkey and the EU are concerned. But it looks as if resolution of the Cyprus Problem, as usual, will take second place because of Turkey's importance to the US.


The prospect of EU membership was the engine of reform during the first term of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, enabling him to neutralise the army, long the final arbiter of Turkish politics. Democratic renewal started going into reverse as soon as that engine stopped running. There are more than 100 journalists – apart from 50 generals – in Turkish jails
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2ac6f3ce-87b4 ... z1sHqg6PgD

[Don Kelley]

I think, in most respects, this by the usually hostile FT hits the nail on the head as far as Turkey and the EU are concerned. But it looks as if resolution of the Cyprus Problem, as usual, will take second place because of Turkey's importance to the US.


The prospect of EU membership was the engine of reform during the first term of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, enabling him to neutralise the army, long the final arbiter of Turkish politics. Democratic renewal started going into reverse as soon as that engine stopped running. There are more than 100 journalists – apart from 50 generals – in Turkish jails
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2ac6f3ce-87b4 ... z1sHqg6PgD

And this rag bag lot above are the people who whupped the GCs in 74, the self same GCs who some on this forum claim whupped the British army in the 50s.

[AEKTZIS]

Don Kelley once again talking absolute shit. The guerilla warfare of 1950s Cyprus by EOKA against British was miles apart from the Turkish Invasion of '74. Apples and oranges. And yes the Greeks did whup the British colonialist pigs. Talking out of your arse. Once again.