Turkey - hearts and minds

After the nail-biting start to talks with the EU Turkey's ruling politicians have been doing some expectation setting at home. Foreign Minister Gul has said there is a rocky road ahead. In recent speeches he has listed the many areas in which the EU expects progress to be made but also a key area in which he expects the EU to do better - winning the hearts and minds of the Turkish people more from Zaman Daily... This could be the major stumbling block as the EU doesn't seem, on past performance, to feel the need to do any winning over. Perhaps the advantages of membership are supposed to be so obvious as to not need it.