Viewpoints

1 Meltem Müftüler-Bac, `Turkey's Role in the EU's Security and Foreign Policies', Security Dialogue, vol. 31, no. 4, December 2000, pp. 489-502.

2 See, for example, Morton Abramowitz, ed., Turkey's Transformation and American Policy (New York: Century Foundation Press, 2000).

3 Author's interviews with Christian Democrats in Bavaria, 1998.

4 Former deputy chief of the Turkish general staff, General Cevik Bir, recently declared that there was simply no need for a European defence force; Cevik Bir, `The ESDI Game of Chess Should Be Played Carefully', National Strategy, vol. 3, no. 17, March-April 2001, pp. 14-20.

5 All figures for defence expenditure are taken from International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2000-2001 (London: Oxford University Press, 2000).

6 William Drozdiak, `U.S. Tepid on European Defense Plan: EU Leaders Dismiss Worry About NATO', Washington Post, 7 March 2000.

7 Defence Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu, speaking in Brussels, 21 November 2000.