EU Enlargement - Analysis about magazine and newspaper articles [5D]
from The Economist - Special Report : Turkey and the EU - Article 1 " Why Europe must say yes to Turkey"- Angela Longo
I'm going to make a summary of the article.
It's an opinionist's article, consisting of three paragraphs.
First paragraph
Turkey is already in all the other big European organisation
A lot of new countries have joined the EU
Turkey is different from other countries for four reasones: size, poverty, not only in Europe and Muslim religion.
A swathe of reforms has been developed since 2002 by Erdogan's party in order to religion and criminality.
Second paragraph
Due to its 71m people, Turkey will become the biggest voting weight in European Parliament.
Turkey's GDP is lower than every other GDP of the 25 member states.
Islam is incompatible with a secular, liberal democracy.
Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise in the Muslim world, including Turkey.
Third paragraph
It is impossible to demostrate that Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy
In order to encourage Turks to buy into liberal democracy that Turkey must be given the benefit of the doubt. and offered EU membership talks.
If the EU were to turn its back on Turkey now, it would be widely interpreted in the Muslim world as a blow against all Islam.
If Turkey becomes part of the European club, it would serve as a beacon to other Muslim countries that are treading, down the path to freedom and democracy.
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