• Welt@lazysoci.al
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      10 months ago

      Steady on. Erdoğan’s Islamifying the place as a populist, undoing Atatürk’s vision. Turkey belongs in the GCC rather than the EU if it’s on its way to theocracy.

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      10 months ago

      The EU is not about to let Turkey join, and the main reason is that Turkey don’t really want to.

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          10 months ago

          It’s not revoked. It’s stalled. There’s a huge list of things they’d need to do to join, and they basically haven’t completed any of it.

          Cyprus is a major sticking point, along with Erdogan, who while not quite being a dictator in name, is probably only a little way off it.

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      10 months ago

      Sweden has generally been pretty supportive of Turkish EU accession. Cyprus is a far bigger issue.