David Cameron's embrace of Turkish EU membership may enrage some Europhobes in his party, but it marks a bold engagement with a long-running European dilemma. Speaking in Turkey today, he argued that it belonged in the EU both as a demonstration of Europe's openness to Islam and for reasons of economic and political security. But his speech comes as Turkey's negotiations over membership are at a low ebb. Turkey began negotiations in 2005. They have proceeded extremely slowly: there is still no...
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