EU Enlargement - Analysis about magazine and newspaper articles [5D]
why Europe must say yes to Turkey - Laura Ferlat
Title of the article: Why Europe must say yes to Turkey.

It is an opinionist's article, he or she is in favour about the entry of Turkey in the European Union.
It is made up by three sequences that have got a precise subheading, in which the main problems discuss by the journalist about the Turkey entry in the EU are express.
The first: The EU faces a momentous decision.
The second: Risk and reward.
The third: Islamophobia.

  • The EU faces a momentous decision.

    The article opens with a question. The question posed is about the advantages or disadvantages for EU to open tooks for Tufkey membership. The journalist says that Turkey is different from other states of Europe in four key respects. It is very large, it is very poor, it is not all in Europe and it is Muslim. Because of these respects it is easy for the Europeans to fob off previous Turkish bids to join. Very important is that over the past two years, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development party has enacted a lot of reforms, in the hope to meeting the Copenhagen Criteria thet govern eligibility to join the EU. The journalist also informed the reader that in December EU leaders must decides at the summit meeting if they agree.
    The first sequence has the function to inform the reader about the situation for the the entry of Turkey in EU.

  • Risk and reward.

    The second sequence has the function to explain risks derived from Turkey's entry in EU.
    The journalist starts with the problem of Turkey's size. Because of its entry in EU it will become the largest national block in the European Parliament. The journalist thinks that it is no logic to barring a country becouse it is big.
    The second risk reguard the poverty. The risk that waves of poor Turks might migrate westwards.The journalist adds that Turks are not looking for copious hand-outs, but they want foreing investiments.
    After that the author considers the question about wheter Turkey is even in Europe and that EU's treaties are vague on the Union's phisical boundaries. He explains that Brusselles considers Turkey sufficiently European to be a candidate one day.
    The fourth and last biggest problem is that Turkey is Muslim. Islam is, by its nature, incompatible with a secular, liberal democracy and the islamic foundamentalism is on the rise in the Muslim world, including Turkey.

  • Islamophobia.

    The last sequence has the function to explain why Turkey should be accept even if it is Muslim. Turkey should be consider like a test-case. Indeed, it is precisely in order to encourage Turks to appreciate liberal democracy that Turkey must be given the benefict of the doubt, and offered EU mambership talks. If the Turks move backwards(to foundamentalism, to terrorism) the member states can always close the door of EU to the Turkey.