re: #85 Dr Lizardo

Over the decades, Turkey has made a number of changes to bring it into line with EU standards; they still have some ways to go, of course. Perhaps the Europeans are looking at Turkey and its relatively young and dynamic population and thinking, “Ah ha……labor pool” for the longer-term future. Until quite recently, Turkey’s economy was growing significantly - presumably if the Turkish Central Bank can ignore political interference from the AKP government, they’ll likely be able to pull out of it, but with Erdogan, you never know.

Good points. I forgot about the aspect of the cheap labor pool being a plus.