While Syria is portrayed by western media as having a dictator that needs to be removed, Turkey has a real dictator in place that throws down religiosism on everyone's throat. Even Wikipedia was completely blocked last week.

On the other side, EU doesn't really want problematic states to join the union. Just sad because before this sultan be installed, Turkey was really making good progress.

Turkey isn't in the EU.

Yes, the title ought to be something like "Turkey might abandon its EU application".

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned "Brussels that Turkey would bring the curtain down on its over half-century bid to join the European Union i f new accession chapters were not opened."