lookin fwd for EU sotsialka don't like hahlis

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: : CRIMEAN TATARS LOOK WARMLY AT EU MEMBERSHIP : : By Huseyin Akkas, Cihan News Agency : : Zamon Online, Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday 23, 2005 : : Tatars living in the Crimean Autonomous Republic, which is dependent on : : Ukraine, also support Ukraine's potential European Union (EU) membership. : : After the pro-Western candidate's victory in the recent contested elections, : : the Ukraine's possible candidacy for the EU has run the risk of : : overshadowing Turkey's EU perspective. Tatar leader Kirimoglu commented, : : "This will be in the advantage of Ukraine." : : The Crimean Tatars National Assembly President and Ukrainian Deputy Mustafa : : Abdulcemil Kirimoglu expressed that he did not find the threat of a civil : : war after the debated elections realistic. Determining that Crimean Tatars : : had supported reformist Our Ukraine Party Leader Victor Yuschenko in the : : elections, Kirimoglu also warned that some incidents could occur in some : : regions of the country. He also emphasized that Russian President Vladimir : : Putin did not have a civil war policy and added that some powers around : : Putin would work to provide such a policy. : : Kirimoglu answered our questions about the post election developments and : : position of the Crimean Tatars in his house in Bahcesaray, which was the : : capital of the Former Crimean Sultanate. He evaluated the realization of : : the pro-Yuschenko demonstrations that continued for many days as the : : most significant development in the region since the collapse of the Soviet : : Block. Kirimoglu determined the reaction of the Ukrainian public saying: : : "This was a surprise. Nobody expected such a thing. The public realized : : their existence." : : Determining that Yanukovych was supported by communists, Slavic nationalists : : and pro-former Soviets and had been using state assets for his own success : : by violating them in the first elections, the Tatar leader clarified that : : they had supported Yuschenko in the elections. Kirimoglu also indicated that : : whereas 15 percent of the votes in the Crimean regions had been cast for : : Yushchenko, 90 percent of the Crimean Tatars had voted for the 'orange' : : reformist leader. "If we had known that Yushchenko would lose, we would : : still vote for him again", said Kirimoglu, calling the new president "a : : democratic figure" and adding that they would negotiate with Yushchenko in : : the new period and their expectations were very high.