Tehran, Iran - This is probably the most profound question that Europeans must answer in the coming 50 years. It will take at least this much time to reach an equitable answer. It will not be easy to achieve an economic, social, cultural, and perhaps political union between a country of 70 million Muslim Turks (and Kurds) and a body of 300 million Christians constituting more than 130 diverse ethnic groups and religions. This is no longer just the cause of The Treaty of Rome or subject of The European Economic Community (EEC). There are as many who support Turkey joining the Union both within and outside the EU. There are also many who oppose it.

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Tehran, Iran- Washington needs to think hard and change course. There are some signals that it's doing so, such as Vice President Cheney's "80 percent solution".

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Tehran, Iran - It's too easy to carve the world into blocks like the American media often does. It contrasts the West, the Muslim world, the former USSR, and "others". It then injects its simplistic religious analyses into complex events to explain the plight of women abroad. Despite what American media claim, it is not religion or culture that affects women most, but education.

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