TURKEY HAS NOT YET REFUSED OF DREAM TO JOIN EU: ARMENIAN TURCOLOGIST

ArmInfo
2009-05-11 11:13:00

ArmInfo. Turkey has not yet refused of a dream to join the European
Union, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian
National Academy of Sciences, a turcologist, professor Ruben Safrastyan
told ArmInfo when commenting on the regular statement by the president
of France saying there is no place for Turkey in EU.

‘Turkey still has chances, as France does not represent EU singly,
and if, for example, the social-democrats in Germany come to power, the
position of Germany with regard to the prospects of Turkey’s membership
in EU will apparently change’, he said. Moreover, R. Safrastyan
thinks Turkey has chances to join EU against the background of USA’s
aspiration to push it in it, although the majority of the Europeans
are against this. ‘I think the highlight of the European policy with
respect to Turkey is just to keep it at the doors of EU on petitioner’s
bench, opening the door but not letting Turkey in’, Safrastyan resumed.