yeah but the only reason they are doing a little bit better than they usual do is because there was recently an EU investment of about 300 million euros in the north... also there is this misconception by the general public and in industry circles that Turkey is close to being accepted by the EU...

this will never happen guys... never.

Even if the UK wants Turkey to join for political and economic reasons countries like Germany, France and Austria don't.. even if by some miracle of diplomacy they agreed to let them in the Turks are a million miles away on all criteria from EU entry: economic, human rights, use of torture, freedom of speech, political freedom etc

Again even if by some miracle they get their act together and stop killing their own people like Saddam did (kurds), stop torturing people and stop throwing people in jail for 'insulting turkishness' they will need to get past a Greek and Cypriot veto on their entry... which wont happen without an equitable solution to the Cyprus problem...

Sound like a likely scenario? Nope. I dont think so.