Charlemagne: Turkey's circular worries

摘要

Turkey's friends inside the European Union believe that history is on their side. Ask these national politicians, diplomats and eu officials if they think Turkey will one day achieve full membership, and they answer that it must. In a decade or two, they say, objections to Turkish entry will look trifling, next to the country's strategic benefits as an energy hub, regional diplomatic power and bridge to the Muslim world, not to mention as a dynamic economy filled with young people.