Turkey not European: Sarkozy

ABHaber 20.05.2005

The Middle Eastern countries of Israel and Lebanon were more European
than Turkey, according to the man who may well be the next president
of France.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the chairman of France’s ruling centre right Union
for Popular Movement, and tipped to be a candidate in the 2007 French
presidential election, said Thursday that while he did not opposed
to either Muslim countries or Turkey itself, he did not want to see
an Asian nation as part of the European Union.

Turkey has tried to join the EU since 1963 and if it was European it
would have been a member by now, Sarkozy said.

Having what he described as an Asian country in the EU would bring
problems such as the Kurds and Hizbullah to the bloc, he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress