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An Overwhelmingly Muslim Country Can Reach European Standards, Gul Published: 1/27/2006 ISTANBUL - ''Considering our experiences, we can say that an overwhelmingly Muslim country can reach democratic standards of Europe, and keep its own cultural characteristics at the same time,'' Turkish FM Abdullah Gul said late on Wednesday. Turkish Industrialists' & Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) presented ''TUSIAD Bosphorus Prize for European Understanding 2005'' to British Secretary of Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw in a ceremony held at Istanbul's Rahmi M. Koc Museum. ''Straw deserves this award for his extraordinary diplomatic efforts to help Turkey start its entry talks with the EU, in the EU summit held in Luxembourg on October 3rd, 2005'', said TUSIAD in an earlier statement. Taking the floor at the ceremony, Gul stressed that Straw was a person who knew well about Turkey, and made significant contributions to EU's decision to open full membership negotiations with Turkey on October 3rd, 2005. ''We have a common history and a common future vision. And our European vision is the same with that of the founders (of the EU). And, this is to create a union of different identities, languages and cultures. Therefore, Turkey's integration to the EU is very important. We want a peaceful, stable and prosperous region around us. And, we cannot achieve this goal without our European friends,'' indicated Gul. On Cyprus, Gul hoped that Turkey's efforts to find a solution to Cyprus question would be appreciated. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
