"....Another roadblock is that, from next year, the party most likely to lead a new German government, the Christian Democrats, are opposed to full Turkish EU membership.
The Turks have repeatedly said they do not want any special status which falls below full membership. Ukraine and Croatia and others are likely to feel the same way.
In Ankara, the director of the Foreign Policy Institute at Bilkent University, Seyfi Tashan, says Turks cannot understand why their candidacy for EU membership has become so controversial.
Tashan says membership, in any case, is a decade or more away, and the important thing is to stay engaged through this difficult period.... "
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