Turkey belongs in Europe

摘要

Anew map of the old conti-nent is unrolling at a dizzying speed. It now seems very likely that by the end of next week a European Union of 15 countries containing some 370m people will have asked another ten countries with 9om more people to join the show. This invitation comes a bare month after NATO asked another seven countries, most of them in that same batch of would-be newcomers to the EU, to join the world's greatest military alliance. A mere decade-and-a-half ago, when the world's pair of then superpowers―the United States and the Soviet Union― were glowering at each other across a nervous European continent divided by barbed wire and antagonistic ideologies, the notion of so dramatic a turnabout would have been absurd.