"Turkey not yet fit to enter EU
A “no” to Turkey starting negotiations to enter the European Union on 3 October “will have centuries of implications”, as one influential academic, Husseyin Bagci, put it to me last week. It would push a wounded Turkey back into the arms of the nationalists, even perhaps hardline fundamentalists, and be grist to the mill of those who argue that the Christian Western world will always consider itself superior and apart from the Muslim one. "
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