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To: mishedlo who wrote (14829)	11/5/2004 6:18:31 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 116555

Three players with different motives and wheels within wheels: Player 1: EU EU's main goal at this point re Turkey's bid to join EU is simply to block, if not, delay it. [So they are not exactly "fighting terrorism" here]. What they are trying to do, strictly speaking, is to ask for more legal revisions so as to make it difficult for Turkey to carry them all out. In their mind, they have every right to ask full compliance before joining, legally and economically, although no such compliance was demanded from say, Ireland (religious laws). Player 2: Erdogan and his "mild" religious party I am convinced somehow over the years that they do actually want to improve Turkey's economical outlook. They also look very interested in adhesion to EU, and have passed an enormous number of laws very rapidly, to this end. HOWEVER, they have sneaked in quite a number of laws for their own agenda, cloaked as EU compliance laws - curbing down powers of the army (their arch-enemy) and passing laws on "freedom of religion", etc. Player 3: President Sezer Fiercely secular and an ex-head of Constitutional Court, Sezer has been vetoing Erdogan's laws "for EU adhesion" whenever he saw a part in them that advanced the religious agenda. As President, his powers are rather symbolic, mostly to do with suggestions and vetoes.