Turkey Must Choose EU or Third World
Turkey will be relegated to "a Third World country" unless it applies European Union standards of democracy and the rule of law, its chief EU negotiator said on Tuesday, June 05, 2007. Economy Minister Ali Babacan made what sounded like a veiled warning to the EU candidate country's powerful military and secular judicial establishment after six weeks of political turmoil over the election of a new president. Babacan said the events of the last month-and-a-half had showed how important Turkey and the EU were for each other.