Some highlights:

"court case seeking to close the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is not in line with EU standards at all."

"In a rebuke of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Rehn referred to former External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten's words that the next page of the European story could be written in İstanbul."

"There is also the social cleavage between the political and business elites of the big cities and the entrepreneurial, pious middle classes of Anatolia and other regions"

"I must admit, I have in recent days started to re-read Orhan Pamuk's novel 'Snow,' which provides a surrealist portrait of contemporary Turkey. .... instead more like a realistic analysis of today's Turkey."


http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=140811