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1. Introduction
Turkey, the land of contrasts! Its unique geographical position, its European orientation on
one side, while maintaining the Islamic and Ottoman Empire’s traditions on the other side
make Turkey “strange”, “controversial”, “incomprehensible”, “dangerous” or “backward”
but also “interesting”, “amazing”, “fascinating” and “important”. Not only because of all
these attributes should we deal with that euro-asian country.
Since the negotiation of Turkey’s accession to the EU started in October 2005 Turkey is
in the spotlight of the whole world. The first time in the EU accession history the majority
of EU citizens is against the admission of a new nation to the EU. In autumn 2005 only
31% of EU citizens approved the Turkish EU joining, while 55% argued against it. In
Germany only 21% supported the European states’ decision.
Luckily I have a “family” in Turkey and therefore I have the chance to see people’s......

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