Turkey applied for EU membership in 1987 and began accession talks in 2005. However, negotiations have been essentially frozen over the past decade, with no progress made.

Many Western observers are making ominous predictions about the future of Turkey under the re-empowered leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This past Sunday, Erdogan won the presidential election. His ...

Gideon Rachman Hello and welcome to the Rachman Review. I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about Turkey. President Recep ...