Should Turkey be allowed into the EU?

THE expansionist EU will want to admit Turkey, but if we vote to remain, we can veto this. However, Turkey as an independent state will be able to encourage us not to veto their membership by threatening to increase and impose border controls, visa and hotel taxes for UK nationals, and can threaten tariff barriers for UK goods. Such pressure might allow our politicians to ignore any veto they have negotiated and agree to Turkey’s membership of the EU. PAUL GILBERT, Solihull, W. Midlands. THERE is no prospect of Turkey joining the EU until it changes fundamentally. Any move to allow in Turkey would require the unanimous agreement of 28 countries, including Britain. No one has suggested Turkish people should be allowed to work in the UK. All that is being talked about is three-month visas — and Britain would be exempt even from that. So, how could this possibly grow Britain’s population to 76 million? Just over half of immigration to Britain comes from outside the EU, which the Government is free to stop without reference to Brussels. Immigration from within the EU has been shown to boost Britain’s GDP. The public have repeatedly said they want facts, not fear. TIM FARRON MP, London SW1. ON A visit to Ankara in 2010, David Cameron told the Turks he wanted them to join the EU and would do everything he could to help. This week’s front-page headline in a leading Turkish newspaper with close links to President Erdogan was ‘50 perverts killed in US gay bar’. And Cameron has the nerve to vilify as prejudiced those who oppose Turkey’s application to join the EU. ROBERT READMAN, Bournemouth, Dorset.