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Turkish paradox
Twenty years after the declaration of the breakaway state, the Turkish establishment is faced with painful strategic dilemmas. The European Commission's recent «progress report» on Turkey confirmed what EU Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugen had already implied. Notwithstanding Ankara's denial, Turkey's European orientation conflicts with its longstanding strategy on the Aegean Sea and the Cyprus problem. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Climate of questioning
There is a general climate of questioning among young people wherever they gather, especially in universities. You can feel it in the air, from a tendency to disobey and scorn even the simplest rules. Belief in flags and ideologies has disappeared, there are no role models to guide people, and anarchic individualism has found fertile ground, giving birth to an aggression which will inevitably trigger violence.
It stems from the discrediting of politics and its subjection to economics, the process of de-ideologization, the absence of visionary words and deeds, the sense of exuberance and overconsumption that has overwhelmed society in recent years, the disappearance of solidarity... |
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