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Bush, Bilderbergers push EU membership for Turkey.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
The increasing presence of representatives from Turkey--both corporate executives and government officials--at the annual Bilderberg conferences has coincided with stepped-up pressure from the White House, the State Department, and the bureaucracy of the European Union to grant the Islamic nation full EU membership. There is, however, strong resistance to Turkey's EU accession in virtually every EU country, based on memories of centuries of bloody Turkish conquest, the fear of Turkish mass migration, and the likelihood of massive transfers of economic aid from EU taxpayers to Turkey, as occurred when other poor countries acceded to EU membership.
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