For Europe, Turks still have to shake off "hordes of the Apocalypse" image
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When Europe first saw the Turks nearly 1,000 years ago, Byzantine historians believed they had met &quot;the hordes of the Apocalypse&quot;; ten centuries later, Europe's collective memory is still marked by prejudice against this nation now knocking at the EU's door.
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A senior Euro MP has warned the Turkish government that the EU is losing patience over changes to Ankara's penal code.
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European MPs criticise Turkey's slow pace of reform and say it should recognise the massacre of Armenians in 1915 as genocide before joining the EU.
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Viewpoint: Modern Turkey was born in a war to save its territory, and Kurdish autonomy remains a red line for Ankara. But a policy built on fear has simply engendered more fear
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to Armenians in Turkey and asks why 90-year-old massacres are still such a sensitive subject.
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Maybe the most unpleasant Ankara-Brussels meeting since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002 was held in The Hague last week.
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If you equate Europe with stodginess, it's time to take another look.
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Friday&#39;s European papers offer a distinctly cool reaction as the prospect of &quot;Turkey in Europe&quot; appears to move one step closer.
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Turkey's plans for new sex laws may hurt its European ambitions
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The 25-member European Union &#151; now comprising eight ex-communist nations and considering membership for Muslim-dominated Turkey &#151; is busily crafting a "Wider Europe" as well.
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Images from south-eastern Europe where people are experiencing a heat wave.
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European countries are adopting tougher tactics to combat terrorism, but cooperation remains a challenge.
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Turkey has always shown two faces: One, confidently pointing toward Europe, is wealthy, urban, and secular; another, gazing eastward, is poor, rural, and devoutly Muslim.
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Multiculturalism is stirring a bitter public debate about national identity in Turkey.
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A green light to Turkey to begin EU membership talks receives a cool reception from Europe's press on Thursday. While in Russia, fare-dodgers are in for a surprise.
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The fear here is that the whole of Europe has succumbed to the virus of racism and that new political parties based on some variant of racism will swell in popular support, win elections, run institutions of ...
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.