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"en.20141217.64.3-590-000"2
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"Mr President, whatever our views on the policies of the Turkish government, we must acknowledge Turkey’s importance as a country. But ever since acquiring EU candidate status in 2005, the accession process was always going to be a challenging one for such a large, relatively poor country, with a very different heritage from Western Europe’s.
So far, only one chapter of 33 has been opened and closed, as Turkey still refuses to recognise the Republic of Cyprus. The decline of secular Turkey and the rise to power of the Islamist AKP has posed new challenges as President Erdoğan’s increasingly erratic authoritarian approach takes on the students, the army, journalists and now the rival Islamist group, the Gülenists, who have dared challenge the corruption and obstruction of justice in that country. Erdoğan has also backtracked on the PKK ceasefire negotiations, and only under huge NATO pressure has he finally agreed to allow support for beleaguered Kurdish forces in Kobani, as he sees brutal ISIS as less of a threat to Turkish interests than the secular PKK.
There has also been Western alarm about Turkey’s alleged support to ihadists in Egypt, Iraq and Syria, but despite all this, we all still hope that Turkey may still change course towards a more Western path it once held."@en1
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