There's zero political will to admit Turkey, that's the reality. The biggest hurdle is values, culture and democratic rule. Turkey's democracy is retreating an

There's zero political will to admit Turkey, that's the reality. The biggest hurdle is values, culture and democratic rule. Turkey's democracy is retreating and instead you get something like a dictatorship with a bit of Islamic chauvinism thrown in. If there were ever serious considerations about Turkey (I kinda doubt it) I'm positive it was before Erdogan's current rule. And yeah, let's not pretend that the religion issue doesn't play any part - of course it does. The EU wants to remain secular Christian. Ghosting, good personality, nobody cares. The EU isn't going to commit political suicide because of optics.