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...Fischer. "Although the U.S. is not a member of the E.U. ... " And that's where the U.S. Secretary of State's missive might as well have ended. Powell went on to write that the European Union must "act boldly to expand the zone of stability and prosperity" by offering Turkey "a firm date" for starting talks on its accession to the E.U. While some European leaders - notably Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, José María Aznar and Costas Simitis - agreed in principle with Powell's argument, many Europeans thought America's full-court press for Turkey - including phone calls...
...TURKEY Smoothing the Way Parliament amended the constitution to allow the leader of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party, which won last month's general election, to run for parliament and thus become Prime Minister. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been banned from running since his 1998 criminal conviction for reciting a poem that compared minarets to bayonets, which authorities said incited religious hatred. Erdogan, who has run Turkey through deputies, could enter parliament in a special election in February. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer must approve the change. See Also: Turkey in Time...
...Turkey is the only applicant for EU membership that has not been set a date to begin negotiations. So, there are suspicions in and around Turkey that the reason is simply that Turkey is a majority Muslim country. To eliminate these suspicions, the EU must give Turkey a date. We must show civilizations unifying and working in harmony. Turkey has proved for past 80 years that Islam and secularism can coexist. It's a great model for countries striving for democracy...
...TIME: Yet the very fact that Chairman Erdogan as head of the party that won the election can't be made prime minister [on the basis of a law forbidding religious expression in politics] suggests there are some limits on Turkey's democracy...
...Reforms currently underway in Turkey will strengthen democracy, and even if we don't get into the EU we have embarked on a process of extending freedom of speech and other democratic freedoms. The people of Turkey deserve to live under European standards, and we will do everything to achieve that. People should have the freedom to criticize us. Our goal is to expand the individual freedom and rights of Turkish people in all aspects of their lives...