EU flag at yesterday’s rally of the presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in Istanbul, Turkey.

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  1. I do hope Turkey will one day be member of EU. It’s just far a way in it’s current state. And the 1 EU flag is not yet fully convincing 😉 But you need to start somewhere.

  2. I don’t see Turkey joining the EU anytime soon, but we can still pursue an ever closer relationship.

  3. I do not think it will join at all, and I don’t think this is a negative thing. Turkiye is a neutral country, and it will stay as that.

  4. Türklerdeki avrupa aşkını anlamıyorum. İstenmiyoruz, dışlanıyoruz. İstersek en demokratik ülke olalım yine de almayacaklar.

  5. Make everything on the european side of the Bosporus a new EU country, and let everyone east of it live in a theocratic islamic state like they want.

  6. Personally I would love to see Turkey join the EU and wholeheartedly would support such a decision.

    However, not without conditions of proper independent institutions and a return to secular and democratic values. Imo in the past 10 years or so, Turkey has been backsliding into a hybrid system that is hurting the country and has rolled back the pace of development. Maybe in the future, but as things stand now, Turkey has no chance. The thing is Turkey is an important partner to the EU on the geopolitical and climate changes that we are currently experiencing and I believe closer cooperation should be nurtured until Turkey could or would eventually join.

  7. see, there are certain stuff that even with Kilicdaroglu can’t control that wouldn’t allow us to join EU.

    say that we satisfy the requirements of the Copenhagen Criteria. Could it be done? In a year or two, sure, why not. then, improve relations with greece – aegean dispute isn’t that difficult to solve, it could be done diplomatically, i believe that. establish good ties with the eu – perfect. but then again, what do you do about these two?

    -> cyprus dispute

    -> massive population

    can kilicdaroglu solve the cypriot dispute? Sure he can. But it would cause him to lose a lot of votes at home. his approval rate would reduce. and if AKP is still a thing by then (hopefully not), oh boy they would use that. alright fine, let’s be optimistic for one day. say he solved all the problems within his first term. what can he do about a massive population? this. this is one aspect that is going to be a problem.

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