The EU holds less and less appeal for Turks

"Turks are beginning to seriously sour on the idea of European membership," warns journalist Erdal Balci after seeing the European Commission's latest polls indicating that "only 35% of Turks believe the Union is pursuing positive goals with respect to Turkey. According to Cengiz Aktar, a specialist in European affairs at the University of Bahcesehir, a part of the Turkish population that is opposed to European membership thinks democratic reforms should be stopped because the EU will never accept Turkey into its fold. ... This paucity of support for the European idea may well be linked to recent developments in the Middle East and to the hypothesis according to which Turkey will have to dispense with the Turkish part of Cyprus if it wants to be granted admission to the EU."

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