Talk of immediate membership is nonsense: even Turkey's friends know it will take at least ten years.
Alas, the convulsions in Kosovo could easily involve neighboring Macedonia and Albania, nearby Bulgaria and perhaps even Turkey and Greece.
Even Turkey, Washington's closest non-Arab ally in the Middle East outside Israel, has increasingly pursued a foreign policy independent of Washington's.
Nowadays, even Turkey's chief of the general staff, Ilker Basbug, admits that military might alone will not fix Turkey's Kurdish problem.
The museum's 10 thematic galleries explore traditional aspects of pan-Asian culture, the focus shifting between exquisite, subtly-lit artefacts from Southeast Asia, China, India, Sri Lanka and even Turkey.
Halting the fighting will involve some diplomatic spade-work drawing in a number of external actors - Egypt certainly, probably the United States and maybe even Turkey as well.
But in their bilateral dealings with Macedonia a number of countries, including Russia, China and even Turkey, a Nato member, have been using Macedonia's own preferred name over the years.
Yet even in Turkey, people are not quite sure what to think about the Albanians' emergence on to Europe's stage.
And even as Turkey embraced Hamas and Iran as allies, its trade with Israel reached an all time high last year.
Even there Turkey is not among the top 20 foreign investors.
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It could even influence Turkey and Brazil, both of which have been reluctant to see new sanctions and have claimed to take their lead from the (previously less critical) IAEA. Now the IAEA is changing tune, will they do so too?
Until a few weeks ago it was a foregone conclusion that Turkey's parliament, dominated as it is by the right, would have Mr Ocalan sent to the gallows, even though Turkey has in fact observed a de facto moratorium on executions since 1984 in order to improve its chances of joining the European Union.
Dolan finished the contest in dead last, a feat that even Dustin the Turkey could have accomplished.
Even allies like Turkey might feel compelled to take unilateral, albeit counterproductive steps, such as intervening in northern Iraq to protect their interests.
Turkey even appears to have colluded with the Russian patriarch, Kirill, to limit the powers of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul, Bartholomew I, usually seen as first among equals in the Orthodox hierarchy.
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In a dramatic shift, Turkey even dropped its long-running precondition that Armenia must withdraw from the territories that it occupied in the 1990s after its war with Azerbaijan over the mainly Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Meanwhile, the prospect that the European Union could start negotiating with just one (Greek) part of Cyprus to bring it into the European club, while excluding Turkey itself even from a group of second-rung applicants, has made all Turks, whether in Turkey or on Cyprus, unusually surly.
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But he seems committed to Turkey's EU accession process, even to pursuing liberalising reforms in Turkey if its EU hopes are dashed.
Turkey is even less likely to silence an increasingly insistent clamour for fair treatment of its Kurds.
Even Fethullah Gulen, Turkey's most influential Muslim cleric, has lambasted the flotilla organisers.
Ms. VIDINLI: In Turkey, even after the age of 18, women cannot wear the headscarf to university if they're students.
But in Turkey, even the Appeals Court has called minorities foreigners.
Since starting his new role in London, there has been a slight toning down of his spice and chili notes for the North African-influenced dishes, but he has always incorporated aspects of dishes from Iran, Syria, Turkey and even Greece.
Birand's message of fairness won him supporters, even within the ranks of Turkey's deeply alienated Kurdish youth.
Those with Turkey were testy even before Cyprus took the chair: now they will be partly frozen.
"Following the murder, Turkey should not even dream about joining the European Union, " the Armenian news agency Arminfo quoted him as saying.
While Cyprus will be struggling to find ways to meet even basic spending needs, Turkey has shifted billions towards infrastructure projects in recent years.
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And secondly, is it even remotely conceivable that a Turkey, definitively rebuffed by the EU, would strike a deal on Cyprus which the Greek Cypriots could accept?
Even before he left for Turkey, Mr Obama had stirred up fresh irritation in France by declaring his full backing for Turkish membership of the European Union.
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