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    EuroNews - English Version
    September 29, 2005

    EU prevarication affects Turkish membership enthusiasm

    Rising nationalist sentiment in Turkey is accompanying the
    reservations expressed in Europe towards whether the Union can
    successfully take the vast mostly Muslim country of 70 million
    people. Pro-European Radikal newspaper said 'Europe is stretching
    patience to the limit'.

    Readers discovered what looked like a new pre-condition: The European
    Parliament demanding that Turks recognize as genocide the mass
    killing of Armenians 90 years ago.

    Turkish support for joining the EU has fallen from 73 percent a year
    ago to 63 percent in a recent survey. Establishment and army pride in
    the modern Turkey forged by Kemal Ataturk, still a hero for most
    Turks, remains strong. Yet reformers insist that to transform a
    Kemalist state into a democracy respecting individuals the EU
    provides the way.
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