Would The Prospect Of Turkey's Application For Eu Membership Being Accelerated Sway Referendum Voters?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/world/europe/europe-migrants-refugees-turkey.html

[Hypognosis]

@cassa333

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It has been said that we cannot leave without the agreement of all the other member states
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Can you post us a source for this? Or tell us what search terms help you find the story?

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and they could, and probably would, haggle around for many years.
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Well that would be a declaration *to the world* that the democratic rights of 60 million of its citizens can disregarded, or messed around with, with delay tactics. Own goal, surely?


On the other hand, there are ~300 million Americans and the views of half of them must be being over-ridden at any given time. Maybe the best analogy would be the occasional attempts of Texas to secede from their Union?

[Gromit]

Khandro,

We accepted Turkey into NATO in 1952 and they have been our ally ever since. Following your logic, should we leave NATO because Turkey is a member?