Bridging the bosporus.(Mensur Akgun, Foreign Policy director of Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation)(Interview) From: Foreign Policy | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Verena, Ringler | COPYRIGHT 2005 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Turkey's decades-long desire to join Europe has prompted vast political reforms, and its negotiations for European Union membership are finally under way. Mensur Akgun, foreign-policy director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation in Istanbul and associate professor at the Istanbul Kultur University discussed the literary backdrop for Turkey's changing times with FP.

FOREIGN POLICY: Which literary themes are popular in Turkey?

Mensur Akgun: We ...

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