Also Turkey should just join the EU. Don't listen to all the scared and stupid people here in Western Europe, Turks! Ignore their idiotic comments and join us!
Most of the Europeans disagree. Reasons can be listed as,
* Large population of Turkey. Around 70 million and increasing!. I guess they think Turks (the ones without a job at least) will invade the EU, spreading across Europe looking for jobs. This would really happen to some extent.
* Large population also means Turkey will be represented heavily in councils of EU. Turkey will have members in councils more than most of the EU countries.
* Bad economy of Turkey. Turkey would need large economic support to make its economy approach EU standarts.
* Population is heavily muslim. Although general life style in Turkey does not look like the 3rd world fundementalist islamic countries, still this would create some preoblems.
* This is the most important reason I guess. European people does not like Turks in general. Ottomen Empire had invaded nearly half of the Europe (they are finally stopped around Austria) when it is at the peak of its power (1400-1600). Nations have their memories and these memories are carried from generation to generation. This is no ones fault. Nations' behaviour and memories change very slowly. In those times, Turks were a real threat to Europe and they are described and depicted by European writers and artists (most of them had never seen a Turk in their life) as some kind of monsters, or a punishment from god. Although most of it was due to bad propaganda and misinformation, they affected people nevertheless. I have seen a picture of a Turk depicted in middle age by a European artist. It was a gigantic (aroun 2.5-3m) men with an unusual body shape (more like an alien).
Same thing was made by England (posters showing half-monster gigantic ugly Turks) in Australia to create hate against Turks to recruit soldiers to fight against Ottoman empire thousands of kilometers away in Çanakkale Gelibolu (Gelipoli). In fact Turkish people are probably shorter than all of the European people.
Recently I have seen in one of our newspapers that a magazine newspaper in England claimed that Tolkien has been inspired from Turks to create orcs in his famous triology
I know this is not true but still I have got angry for a brief moment.
Anyway, thats why Turkey will not be in EU in short or middle span. Maybe 20-30 years later.
