Zizek ve türkiye // canavarlar

cosy western consensus eastern question

Irak ve özellikle Türkiye ve Avrupa
kimliği üzerine güzel bir Slavoj Zizek yazısı
yine kavramlar üzerine biz siz doğu batı ambiguity

aşağıya bir paragraf alıyorum ama anlaşılması için öncesinin de okunması
gerek

Turkey is a thorn in the side of a cosy western consensus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2197161,00.html

It is not the first time Turkey has been a thorn in the side of the cosy
western consensus. The crisis of the EU today springs to a large degree
from its would-be member. According to polls, the main reason for no votes
at the ill-fated referendums in France and the Netherlands was opposition
to Turkish membership. The no can be grounded in rightist-populist terms
(no to the threat to our culture, no to immigrant labour), or in liberal-
multiculturalist terms (no to its treatment of the Kurds, no to its record on
human rights). The Turkish problem - the perplexity of the EU with regard
to what to do with Turkey - is not about Turkey as such, but the confusion
about what is Europe itself. The impasse with the European constitution,
and European leaders' efforts to persuade their electorates that the treaty
agreed last week does not need a referendum - is a sign the European
project is now in search of its identity.