Backdoor into Europe

January 7, 2004

It happened very quietly, but as of Jan 1, 2004, Turkey is a full participant in the Socrates/Erasmus Europe-wide educational cooperation and exchange programmes. Turkish students can now go study anywhere in Europe for up to a year, much as European students have been doing for years. European students, of course, can now go hang out in Istanbul. Will it become the new Prague?

This is the kind of subtle tectonic shift that will eventually make Turkey's entry into the EU inevitable, and I applaud heartily.

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