Thumbs up. After these last twenty years, relationships between Western democracies and Islamic countries have strained almost to the point of breakage and war, and reached it in more than a case. By making Turkey join EU, European countries could demonstrate that we are not intrinsically against Muslims and Muslim countries, and are indeed open to be friends or at least colleagues.

Europe more than anybody else should know how it functions. Germans and French were not exactly best pals some time ago - until they found out that treating and making business are better ways to settle issues than fighting political, religious and economical wars. Time to export a successful peace model, I daresay