The article's salient point is that Turkey's economy is booming
So what?
and its democracy thriving under the AKP's eight year administration
Depends what you mean by "thriving". What DO you mean?
which, despite the hysterical howls of those innocent of Turkish politics, have yet to shut the gay bars and night clubs.
And as I have pointed out several times, such actions would seriously jeopardize Erdogan's priority goal of gaining the acceptance of Turkey into the EU thereby allowing Muslims from Turkey and beyond to flood westward in unlimited numbers to bolster Europe's already exceedingly troublesome resident Islamic population.
“The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the faithful our army.” Guess who proclaimed those words a while back?
But despair not my sugarplum, they will doubtless get around to that when they're out of office.
When do you expect that to happen? The next election?
And I ask you again. What adverse consequences do you think Europe might incur if it did not accede to Turkey's request to join the EU? Please answer this time.