EU Membership More Elusive Than Ever for Turkey

Moves by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to clamp down on the Kurdish minority and the media before next month’s parliamentary elections are fueling the longstanding skepticism of European leaders, and analysts say the prospect of Turkey joining the European Union seems more distant than ever. A new push by the European Union to re-energize talks has been prompted by the migrant crisis, which this year has resulted in the entry of an estimated 600,000 people from the Middle East...

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