re: #42 Achilles Tang
Could this be a reason, the op, why Turkey is still not a member of the EU, and likely never will be?
Not really. The real reason is that there’s a lot of Europeans having a fear of being overrun by “Turkish hordes”.
However, I have heard some ideas percolating in the EU that owing to Turkey’s recent economic miracle, maybe they were a bit hasty. Right now, for a lot of Europeans, the Turks are looking like a solution to some problems. I hear that from my students, many of whom are within the EU bureaucracy.