Bakerlooline
Striker
To be fair I would have taken the application of Turkey in a heartbeat ahead of Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, some of the former Yugoslav states and Newcastle. It's also vitally important that we keep states such as Ukraine and Belarus at arms length.
Turkey is an industrialised nation and they have worked hard to achieve this. In terms of policing it's borders it is far more aggressive than any European or North African country. If they could sort their human rights issues out I'd let them in tomorrow... at the expense of the states mentioned previously, including Greece, Portugal and potentially Eire - as they have proven they can no longer contribute financially.
Turkey is an industrialised nation and they have worked hard to achieve this. In terms of policing it's borders it is far more aggressive than any European or North African country. If they could sort their human rights issues out I'd let them in tomorrow... at the expense of the states mentioned previously, including Greece, Portugal and potentially Eire - as they have proven they can no longer contribute financially.