Letter to the Editor,      John O' Sullivan's "Why the U.S. should beware the EU" (August 6)       demonstrates that political correctness is not limited to the fringes       of the American Far Left as on certain foreign policy issues that       pertain to Turkey, Mr. O' Sullivan and NR overlook the Turkish       state's historic and consistant policies of aggression and mass       murder. Mr. O'Sullivan writes that the Turks "feel their stability       threatened". Is this the stability produced by the razing of over       3,000 Kurdish villages and the expulsion of over one million Kurds by       Turkish forces?         The European Union has correctly kept Turkey from joining because         to be European, Ankara must behave like a modern European state.         It is interesting that Mr. O' Sullivan makes reference to "the ancient         city of Constantinople". That "ancient city" was once the political         and spiritual center of Christendom. Christian culture is nearly         extinct there today since most of Asia Minor's Greek, Armenian,         and Assyrian Christians were exterminated between 1914-1922         and Turkey's remaining Greek Orthodox have been terrorized into         fleeing after 1955. All that remains today is the Ecumenical         Patriarchate and its only Theological Seminary which is forcibly        closed, an example of state sponsored hate and discrimination.           In what way has Turkey been a "source of strategic stability?"          The ravenous appetite by the Turkish state for the territory of its          neighbors is legendary. In 1939, Turkey invaded and annexed the          Syrian province of Alexandretta. In 1974, Turkey twice invaded          and grabbed thirty-seven percent of the territory belonging to the          internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus. Over the last several          years, Ankara has laid claim to various Greek islands and Islets.           One of the more appalling examples of Ankara's murderous policies           was seen in Cyprus in 1996 when a Greek Cypriot who attempted           to peacefully express his views by removing a Turkish flag was           brutally shot to death by a Turkish sniper.  Ankara does not           deserve to join the European Union because the Republic of Turkey           refuses to embrace liberal, democratic values.                                                                Theodore G. Karakostas