There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a large, reasonably well-tr….

Turkey has had a customs union with Europe since 1996, and there's free trade in everything other than farm products and services. And Turkey has sho….

Turkey's relationship with the West is a love-hate one. There are people in Turkey who want to open to the outside world and others who are frightene….

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more ratio….

The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist out….

There's opposition in Europe to Turkish membership because these are the inevitable fears of energetic, poorer, Muslim outsiders who will come in and….

Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran ….

Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's Middle ….

Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climati….

Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people, to developing countries, to….

Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with re….

I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.….

There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of….

As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In a ….

In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to much more parliamentary ….

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by ….

We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For exa….