TURKPULSE
No:97
SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGH FOR
EU ACCESSION TURKPULSE
No:97
SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGH FOR
EU ACCESSION
Turkey’s victory in the Eurovision 2003 music competition at Riga was a very encouraging development for accession to the European Union. Close scrutiny of the votes cast by the European nations for this competition proves that it was an arranged victory for Turkey presumably to make it forget about the “Old Europe’s” past mistakes and a subtle green light to accession for Muslim Turkey. It is also the favourable European response to the Turkish parliament and government for their rejection of becoming a tool in an illegitimate aggression against Iraq. It is doubly important at a time when American sources are making soundings through the media and other means about Ankara’s prospective stance over a similar American military operation on Iran. To avoid the repetition of the American “disappointment” on this vital issue similar to the 1 March rebuff, please read the article below to see why the Turkish answer will definitely be “no way”, no matter what the underhanded and indirect soundings of the United States may show to them.
TURKPULSE
No:98
AMERICAN
OUTLOOK OF TURKEY’S IRAQ POLICY
Misjudgements and mismanagement of Washington’s Iraq policy especially in respect of where Turkey stands in all this has brought Turkish-American relations to a critical point, paradoxically more critical for the United States than for Turkey, which clearly has the tremendous advantages of location that outweigh the trump cards of a superpower. Current world balances have provided Turkey unforeseen advantages over this incident by opening up the gates of accession to the European Union because of its 1 March rebuff to President Bush’s Iraq policy based on flouting international law rules which alarmed the whole world especially the “Old Europe”. For an objective analysis of where Turkish-American relations are standing today in the aftermath of the mistakes Washington has made in its Iraq policy in regard to Turkey’s role and place, please read the article below.