The Economist: Backing Turkey’s EU candidacy

But that is an untenable position. For one thing, millions of Muslims already live in EU countries. Albania and Bosnia, clearly in Europe and so eligible for EU entry one day, are mainly or partly Muslim in heritage. Turkey has already been accepted as a potential candidate. To reverse that now would send a dreadful signal to pro-Western and pro-democratic forces in other Muslim countries. It would be a geostrategic error of historic
be a geostrategic error of historic proportions…. The other knotty problem is Cyprus…. But the entry of Cyprus into the EU, along with Turkey’s own aspirations to join, have created the best chance so far of reuniting the divided island.