Turkey is not in Europe. Regardless of its ‘Europeanness’, geographically at least, a great deal of the country is most certainly not in Europe.
Of course, for the EU Turkey’s situ may well be less important than relative modernity, but in foreign policy at least, it does matter.
As any ad-man or Canadian diplomat will tell you, location matters.
Turkish membership would bring the Middle East, the Caucuses and Black Sea to Europe, it would also sharpen Europe’s f...
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