The Turkish government has expressed interest for quite a while now, but untill recently, its always been considered too far outside of Western Europe.
The main problem is the Soviets, or so conventional wisdom states. Coexistance has been pretty stable since the end of the troubles in the late 80s, but you could argue that that is because the East/West border is so absolutely defined, and that if we include the traditionally neutral Turkey into the Western alliance that is the EU, we inevitably risk upsetting that balance, no matter how warm our current relations with Moscow are.
But on the other hand, Turkey's democratically elected government wants to join, and Turkey is the fastest growing economy in Europe, (yes yes yes, if you use a liberal definition of 'Europe').
So what do people think?