Anti-West Backlash is Gathering Pace, Warns Turkish Minister --FT

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1//The Financial Times, UK Last updated: July 20 2006 03:00

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3eb6e97c-1788-11db-abad-0000779e2340.html



ANTI-WEST BACKLASH IS GATHERING PACE, WARNS TURKISH MINISTER

By Quentin Peel in London



Hesitation over Turkish membership of the European Union and US policies in the Middle East are causing an anti-western backlash in Turkey, the foreign minister warned yesterday.



In a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times, Abdullah Gül said failure to resolve the dispute in Cyprus was "poisoning" the process for negotiating Turkey's membership of the EU, while US support for Israel's actions in Lebanon would have a backlash across the Middle East region.



"Moderate liberal people are becoming anti-American and anti-EU," he said. "If our young, dynamic, educated and economically active people become bitter, if their attitudes and feelings are changed, it is not good. Their feeling has changed towards these global policies and strategic issues. This is dangerous."

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1. And I think the E.U. actually recognizes this...

Bush could give less than a damn.

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2. duh! turkey could resolve the dispute in cyprus all by itself

just drop all their demands whatever they are. bingo, problem solved.

victims, blaming others for their own problems.

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