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Does Europe Want Turkey or Not?
To anyone sitting at one of the little café tables perched on the quayside above Kyrenia's pretty harbor in northern Cyprus, the Turkish mainland just across a few miles of water, it must seem fanciful that this small island should make or break Turkey's bid to join the European Union. After all, a lot is riding on the ongoing membership talks -- the welfare of Turkey's 72 million citizens, the stability of a region of strategic importance, and the EU's own shape and identity. But on Wednesday, mainly prompted by the Cyprus question, the European Commission (the Union's executive) put a stark choice before Turkey: shape up ahead of an EU summit in December or face the prospect of a suspension of the ongoing membership talks."
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