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Mail Call: Ankara and the EU.(Letter to the editor)

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"Who Lost Turkey?" drew readers' skepticism on Turks' joining the EU. "Strength is not a matter of numbers," one said, "but stems from common values and political, economic, ideological and social cohesion."

Turkey's Troubled EU Bid

The root cause of the European Union's botching its strategy regarding Turkey's admission ("Who Lost Turkey?" Dec. 11) is the fact that the EU (constitution or not) has never given itself a geographical definition. By all accounts, Turkey is a borderline case as far as membership in the EU is concerned, but one could argue that if Turkey is a trusted and strategically important member of NATO, it should be acceptable to the ...

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