Let’s put Turkey’s EU membership back on track

Brussels needs Ankara as much as Ankara needs Brussels.

• By MEVLÜT ÇAVUŞOĞLU
• Politico

ANKARA — Some 30 years ago, on the occasion of Turkey’s formal membership application to the EU, then Prime Minister Turgut Özal likened the process of joining the bloc to “a long and narrow road,” referring to a famous verse by the folk-poet Aşık Veysel.

Time has proven that the road has, indeed, been not just long and narrow, but also bumpy.

Turkey-EU relations were overshadowed in the 1980s by the aftermath of the military coup, in the 1990s by the exclusion of Turkey from the fifth enlargement wave of the…

• Let’s put Turkey’s…