>I would certainly be the last person to duck the issue of Mossad
>infiltration in the US.
Hakki, I read this in today's Financial Times:
>EUROPE: E-mail scandal spurs Turkey to introspection EUROPEAN UNION
>ENTRY INTERCEPTION OF ENVOY'S MESSAGES PROMPTS DEBATE ON HUMAN
>RIGHTS AND READINESS FOR MEMBERSH:
>By LEYLA BOULTON
>
>A scandal over the inter-ception of the e-mails of Karen Fogg, the
>European Commission's envoy to Turkey, may ultimately help the
>country's tortuous preparations for joining the European Union.
>
>The row has mushroomed in recent days into an overdue debate on
>whether Turkey is prepared to embrace further human rights reforms,
>which are a condition for starting accession talks.
>
>The fringe anti-western Workers' party, which this week went on
>trial for obtaining and publishing the e-mails - correspondence to
>officials and journalists regarding Turkey's EU preparations -
>claimed that the messages revealed an EU plot to break up modern
>Turkey.
>
>After protracted silence from the government, such views were
>dismissed last week as nonsense by Ismail Cem, the foreign minister.
>"The EU is not our enemy," he said. "We are considering the subject
>of the EU in the most incorrect way."
>
>His intervention was seen as a welcome act of leadership among a
>people still partial to conspiracy theories after learning from an
>early age how Britain, France and other victors of the first world
>war sought to carve up the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
So what do you make of this characterization ("still partial to conspiracy theories") and the explanation of the proclivity's historical origin?
Doug