> Turkey will never be part of the EU proper. 'Never' as in: not in a couple of life times. Turkey has been given the runaround for the last 30 years or so not because there ever was a serious push to integrate them into the EU but because of the fear that Turkey would align with Russia.
Yeah, even with a secular democratic party in power they would not have a chance (a 80 million people country, mostly Muslim, at the time where there is an islamist terrorist attack every month in Europe? Never mind the number of terrorists with a Turkish background, nobody would agree to that, and that's not even talking about its own stability problem and the neighbours Europe would acquire). With a proto-islamic dictator like Erdogan, forget about it.
Yeah, even with a secular democratic party in power they would not have a chance (a 80 million people country, mostly Muslim, at the time where there is an islamist terrorist attack every month in Europe? Never mind the number of terrorists with a Turkish background, nobody would agree to that, and that's not even talking about its own stability problem and the neighbours Europe would acquire). With a proto-islamic dictator like Erdogan, forget about it.