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rffrydr
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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: TURKEY: A Bridge Too Far |
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The grand politics extending Western models of egalitarism and democracy have hit a roadblock with Turkey, and the Cypress spark. The attention has reverberated back into the EU questioning their own identity--and committments.
| Quote: | Almost 300years ago, the man who first proposed the establishment of a "European union" agonised over whether Turkey should be a member. The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, a French diplomat, suggested that Europe should form a union of 24 states, with an assembly in Utrecht, to dispel the threat of war. But when - in a draft of his book Project for Everlasting Peace in Europe - he proposed that Turkey be included in the union, his readers were shocked.
He backtracked in the English version of the book in 1714, downgrading Turkey to associate status. Today's European Union is wrestling with the same dilemma on Turkey. |
http://search.ft.com/searchArticle?queryText=Daniel+Dombey+Cyprus&y=0&javascriptEnabled=true&id=041216001124&x=0
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ERM can work...even when it gets a fail:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/business/global/06lira.html?_r=1&hp
I | Quote: | STANBUL — For decades, Turkey has been told it was not ready to join the European Union — that it was too backward economically to qualify for membership in the now 27-nation club.
That argument may no longer hold. |
Bill, you been hiding out here?
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Half-listened to a long piece on Turkey from the BBC. Interviewees consistently embraced the muslim identity while lamenting how "out of touch" the ruling military is. Willingness to leave the Kurds to the police apparatus.
Now, exclusion from the ERM is a big plus. Trade here seems to be solid--is just don't know what a turkish "stock" looks like.
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http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-202405-109-centerend-of-impunity-history-in-the-makingbr-i-by-i-brorhan-kemal-cengizcenter.html
| Quote: | While I was writing these lines, retired top commanders were being taken into custody in connection with a military coup plan called Sledgehammer and being interrogated by the police.
Another psychological threshold has been passed in Turkey. From this perspective, I can summarize the whole Ergenekon trial process in one sentence: The end of the total and unquestionable impunity of the Turkish military. |
It does seem to me that the outcome here could be very long-term positive.
Double disclosure, currently long TUR and currently trading it in a system, i.e. may or may not be long it in the future.
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Still no IMF deal for Turkey:
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IMF says no deal yet with Turkey, talks continue
BODRUM, Turkey, June 18 - An International Monetary Fund official in Turkey said on Thursday a stand-by deal had not been agreed with the government in Ankara but that talks were continuing.
Earlier, Turkish financial markets rose sharply on hopes that the government and the IMF were concluding a deal. Several research notes from banks reported rumours of a $13 billion, 18-month stand-by deal.
"I do not know where they get this. I have not heard such a thing. Discussions are continuing. This visit by (IMF First Deputy Managing Director John) Lipsky is a high-level visit but it is not the IMF mission visit," IMF Turkey representative Hossein Samiei told Reuters on the sidelines of a business conference in southern Turkey. |
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