elias wrote an answer which was close but not same with my thoughts. and i believe some of them comes from my previous replies.@Elias and Barbarian, I'm still waiting for an explanation how US is controlling Turkey.
i also believe that US wants to use turkey to control (in some ways) arabian countries. erdogan is already a hero for arabian countries at the moment. especially after his "serious" arguments with israel president, which was a populist theater game also since the economical relations between the countries are even getting better now.
i dont believe US go to lybia to stabilize the oil prices, i believe they go there to take the advantage of designing the new lybia. i believe the next target will be algeria. so the new "neighbour" of EU will be US.
the new alliances of turkey cannot be iran and syria. western countries invested too much in turkey, and there is almost no national company in the country anymore. so they will not allow turkey to be that much radical. but, if erdogan insists on such an idea, it is very easy to replace him with the reserve politicians with the help of very shallow democracy in turkey, just like they did in 2001 where they destroy the biggest 3 political parties in 1 election by creating a economic crisis. and replaced an islamic party (AKP) in 1 year having %33 of the total votes. the votes rised to %42 in the next selection. despite the 2008 crises, these days their vote is estimated around %50. thanks to continious positive economical comments and "hot money" coming from US. 20 years ago there was one islamic party having around %8 of the votes. the other islamic party, where erdogan was their young student before having his own party, accuse them for serving for the benefits of US.
at the moment %92 of the 30 biggest companies in turkey owned by western companies, export/import ratio is 0.57 (which means turkey needs hot money). after this year, the foreign companies will have the right to have the majority of the media companies (US companies already have some of them but not majority of the shares)
you can hear everyday from the goverment supporter radios and tvs that how turkish army is corrupted. same radios show sympathy to US and especially obama.
US supported turkey joins EU to have an extra vote and additional ally in EU. but, they did it so apparently that in fact they complicated the membership issue. because EU started to think that "are we discussing with turkey or with US? why do they want turkey in EU that much?" i believe these days EU membership is impossible because turkish goverment assigned to a new role which is not in EU, but in the east.
in terms of populatin:even the better educated europeans do not want turkey to join the club (e.g. the monastry school student julia90) because they are muslim. do you think less educated muslim majority in turkey wants to join a christian union? turkish people wanted to join EU, because they saw spain and port. turn into rich countries from poor countries. these days are different, turkey is growing fast (!-illusion) and getting richer while EU has problems, especially spain and port. and most of the people in turkey started to think no need to this christian club, especially, if they dont help each other in crisis times.
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