# Turkish Membership of the EU, outline the positives

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-membership-of-the-eu-outline-the-positives/723402>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 24, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-membership-of-the-eu-outline-the-positives/723402 "2015-06-24T22:08:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bert\_Nobbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@Bert\_Nobbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bert_Nobbins)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-membership-of-the-eu-outline-the-positives/723402/21 "2015-06-28T16:58:06Z")

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It will never happen so long as Turkey is in military occupation of EU territory.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern\_Cyprus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus)

And for all the reason’s stated above, a good thing too. Opinion in the UK is very much against it.

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