It would be a catastrophic geostrategic failure if Europe and the West were to turn away Turkey, the exemplar of Muslim democracy, because of a small, bolshy Mediterranean island.

• 如果欧洲和西方各国为了一个不合作的地中海小小岛国而拒绝土耳其这样一个穆斯林民主国家的榜样加入欧盟，那将是一个灾难性的地缘政治的败笔。