The governor of Mardin, Hasan Duruer, told the delegation that thanks to Turkey’s recent outreach to countries from North Africa to the Far East, it soon may not need the EU at all.
Pierini [the head of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey] pointed out 90 percent of direct investment and 80 percent of technology in Turkey was still coming from EU countries. Such an exchange between the governor and the ambassador shows that the negotiation process is all about Turkey being emotional and sensitive and the EU being factual and realistic.
Today's Zaman 13-3-2011
If someone here feels very strongly that he wants two plus two to make ten, then—voilà!—that’s what it means, and there is an emotional truth to it, in the mind of the speaker, that is morally more important than any literal truth. ... [Turks] see “truth” as something plastic, connected more to emotions than to facts or logic. If it feels true, it is true. ... utter uselessness, for [Turks], of our Western notions of truth and logic.
World Affairs Journal Jul-Aug 2010
Sunday's Zaman "Eventful trip to Turkey’s SE with union ambassadors resembles Turkey’s EU journey" 13 March 2011, Sunday / MUHLIS KAÇAR, ANKARA
Smile and Smile: Turkey's Feel-Good Foreign Policy Claire Berlinski | WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL July-August 2010.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
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As either unitary state or federation solutions are discussed as replacements to Cyprus' 1960 and Turkey's 1923 unworkable constitutions, should we abide by "if a right is a right too many for Turkey's Kurdish community (circa 23% of population) then that right is a right too many for Cyprus' tCypriot community too (circa 15%), and vice versa." Is the adoption of this fair logic the catalyst to securing just solutions for both UN countries.