Advocates of a conditioned accession are thus under extraordinary pressure to be nice, even as Turkish officials stage provocations, like the recent suit against the noted author Orhan Pamuk for “public denigration of Turkish identity” because he dared to question the official position on the Armenian genocide. As a result, a general lack of clarity about what kind of Turkey should be accepted characterizes the accession debate, which focuses – much as in the recent referenda on the EU constitution in France and the Netherlands – on rather meaningless generalities.
有条件入盟的支持者因此面临巨大的压力要做到无懈可击，即使是土耳其官员挑起事端也是如此。著名作家奥冉·巴穆最近因“公开诋毁土耳其特色”而遭到起诉，因为他敢于质疑官方有关亚美尼亚种族屠杀的立场。所以，对于究竟应当接受哪种土耳其的问题莫衷一是成为入盟争论的特征。这一争论就像最近法国和荷兰的欧盟宪法全民公投一样集中于没有意义的一般原则。