13/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has asserted that the main reason why Turkey wants to become a member of the EU is to avoid a “shock of civilisations”. “The world must make a successful alliance of civilisations and the strongest response to this challenge is the European Union”, Mr Erdogan said in an interview with Le Monde on 13 October. “If the EU wants to become a world power, then it must be successful in its alliance of civilisations”. Mr...