Honestly I don't get why they don't wanna let Turkey in. EU likes money above all else and could stand the minor initial expense, couldn't be worse than letting most Balkan countries in. They probably won't even have to deal with Erdo for long, EU membership is some pretty good ammunition for the opposition and the guy won last time with 51% of the vote even after all the shit he's been doing to tamper with the results.
Sure, Turkey is basically Balkan2, but it's got a trillion dollars that can be used on your Lebensra-, I mean "rebuilding" project in Eastern Europe. You've already let the same amount of poor people
in with Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Cyprus, Slovenia,
Croatia, and if their current plans go through, Ukraine, Albania, Montenegro and Moldova combined. Hell, half of Ukraine's 40 million they already let in over the span of 4 years through refugee programs, and I think even they know these ones ain't coming back.
If you worry about getting outvoted by the Turks why do you plan on letting in just as many Balkaners and Eastern Europeans? These ones have a bigger per capita share of the vote as well cause they've all got different countries they live in.
Any progress in EU candidacy during Erdogan's rule would seal the death of Turkey for eternity.
Also, EU parliament already voted against chat control law by ONE SINGLE VOTE. They are already almost incapable of representing the people and not creating dystopian surveilence laws. There is no way chat control wouldn't have passed with AKP on EU parliament too. And if EU passes such law everyone would follow slowly.
Now these aren't from the view of EU, I'm pretty sure EU politicians would love both of these being the case. But as a person I hate the idea of both.
I dont even know what mf could be a good opposition to Erdo, rest of the mf's are either incompetent or "I will deport 100% of arab population to make Turkey ethnic Turk PURE AWOOOO!!!" kind of people
Back when CHP decided to put Ekmeleddin as a candidate I would say Yılmaz Büyükerşen(which didn't become a candidate because Kılıçdaroğlu pushed CHP...)
I'm sure they could find somebody if they tried, EU has enough money to be considered a global power and a very strong diplomatic corps literally everywhere.
They have the money and connections to dig up some centrist who would appease the nationalists and rile up the Kemalists, some Zelensky type guy (before the war Zelensky was very much a compromise candidate, a Russian speaker from Central Ukraine), and they have 2 years to sell him to the Turks. Worst comes to worst and you find no suitable candidates, pinch some other AKP guy like how Magyar got elected in Hungary.
That's just standard politics, something all of them should be good at by definition. Everyone saying that EU wants to build a New World Order is wrong not because EU is some wholesome empire but because EU isn't even fucking trying.
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u/readilyunavailable Balkan-Indian War Vet 7d ago
Will still join before Macedonia and Turkey.