The Turks and ‘Europe’: The Argument from History

@article{Deringil2007TheTA,  title={The Turks and ‘Europe’: The Argument from History},  author={Selim Deringil},  journal={Middle Eastern Studies},  year={2007},  volume={43},  pages={709 - 723},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144606323}}
  • Selim Deringil
  • Published1 September 2007
  • History, Political Science
  • Middle Eastern Studies
On 2 November 2002 Valerie Giscard D'Estaing made his now famous statement to Le Monde about the Turks' historical and cultural unsuitability for membership in the EU; he said it would be 'the end of the Union', as Turkey was 'a country that is close to Europe but not a European country'.' Inadvertently, Giscard D'Estaing did the Europhobes in Turkey and the Turcophobes in Europe a great service. By provoking the 'argument from history', he was merely voicing a feeling that many people in… 

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