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"What exactly is Turkey today? It is both first world and third world in one single state. It may be possible to describe Turkey today in the same way as Count Mirabeau described Prussia, namely not so much a state with an army but an army with a state.
What could Turkey be or what should it be? It could and should be a normal European state with wide-ranging guarantees of civil rights and guaranteed stable relations with neighbouring countries, whereby all of Turkey’s neighbours must be given an internationally binding guarantee. It must also, of course, be a state in which social rights are respected and in which trade unions can be freely established by those who wish to do so. Furthermore, it must be a stable economic project, which will entail investment in the east of the country, and be able to banish the centuries of backwardness. This means that Turkey must become European and not that Europe must become Turkish, which would result in the degeneration of the European project into a free trade area.
When Mr Schröder recently called Mr Erdogan his friend, he meant that ..."@en1
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