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To: michael97123 who wrote (61694)12/14/2002 11:06:11 AM
From: Elsewhere  Respond to of 281500
 
With Turkey rejected

Turkey hasn't been rejected, quite to the contrary. Some quotes from an article two hours old:

Samstag 14. Dezember 2002, 14:09 Uhr
Positives Echo auf EU-Beschluss zur Türkei
de.news.yahoo.com

"Positive echo to EU decision for Turkey"

"Turkish publications reacted positively to the EU decision to offer a concrete perspective for commencing negotiations." ...

"This is a visionary decision" (Ari Fleischer)

The Turkish newspaper Sabah has a headline: "In 2010 we will be Europeans." Yeni Safak writes: "The road to the EU is open."

According to the magazine SPIEGEL 60% of all Germans are in favor of a Turkish EU membership.



To: michael97123 who wrote (61694)12/14/2002 11:49:30 AM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 281500
 
With Turkey rejected, . . .

Michael, I'm going to link two more articles from the NYTimes which suggest that the the process of admission was simply slowed down; not stopped. My guess is that was a diplomatic compromise between elements within both the EU and Turkey.

I'll do the linking as soon as I catch up to the end of the posts as of right now.