Turkey's accession to the European Union would mark perhaps the most significant enlargement so far, extending EU borders to Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Caucasus and bringing in for the first time a huge country with a largely Muslim population
Personally I'm in favour. If it helps to build bridges towards the Muslim world then so be it.
stu wrote:This will have huge implications for the EU if Turkey joins.
Trouble ahead for Turkey's EU bidTurkey's accession to the European Union would mark perhaps the most significant enlargement so far, extending EU borders to Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Caucasus and bringing in for the first time a huge country with a largely Muslim population
Personally I'm in favour. If it helps to build bridges towards the Muslim world then so be it.
rogerhb wrote:I thought there was some ruling that countries with terratorial disputes with EU members could not join the EU.
What is Spain's status with the EU? UK and Spain still dispute Gibraltar.
ElijahJones wrote:It does seem that you have to go way back to find common culture between Turkey and Greece, way, way back like 2000 years. I hope it works out for the best. At any rate one might say symobically that the eastern and western empires have been joined again and that this union predates Ottoman and Byzantine, a union not seen for sixteen centuries. That's symbolically pretty powerful, Rome has risen again.
peripato wrote:Unless you're Greek or Greek Cypriot. My family comes from an island bordering Asia Minor (3 miles to Turkey). Turkey has contested the validity of Greek sovereignty in this area of the Aegean for years, coming close to confilict with Greece many times over issues such as seabed demarcation, oil potential, flight information ranges etc, most recently during the Imia Crisis 1996.Link.
The inclusion of Turkey into EU membership would open up the possibility for Turkish settlement of the islands close to her coast, of which she has coveted for many years, legally possible with this move as EU citizens are entitled to live and work where they please anywhere inside the borders of the Union. Same goes for the rest of unocccupied Cyprus.
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