Could Turkey's dream of joining the EU become a reality?

Turkey has long term ambitions of joining the European Union.
But as Mark Lowen reports from Istanbul, the country is a long way from achieving that goal.

Glorious Istanbul that wonderful meanings of world's Asia on that side and Europe on the other Turkey's European dream is decades old it first applied for the European Economic Area used predecessor back in nineteen fifty nine.  But in reality membership is still a long way off and whatever's being said in the British press.  There's little sign that it's speeding up for a country to join the European Union it has to satisfy thirty five policy areas so-called chapters from energy to human rights fisheries to foreign policy since Turkey became an E.U. candidate in two thousand and five.  It's fulfilled only one of them.  Science and research.  Others are way off completion for years.  It's virtually stalled looks beautiful doesn't it but some E.U. states fear Turkey because of its size seventy eight million people and because it's a Muslim country bordering Syria and Iraq Cyprus would veto accession until Turkey recognizes its borders and stops backing the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus the tide of public opinion isn't in these favour.  And then there's the direction in which President and one is leading the country media outlets have been taken over critics prosecuted violent conflict with the P.K. Kurdish militants resumed E.U. reports talk of serious backsliding in human rights and the rule of law they would need to be a sea change in policies if Turkey were to ever get close to you exception.  So even if Turkey gets visa free travel to the E.U. Sheindlin zone that's not really a move towards Europe countries from Peru to South Korea have that to Turkey's voyage to the E.U. is an extremely long one if it makes it at all perhaps this country might simply miss the boat to Europe.