and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s prime minister, can place his trust in the near automatic mechanisms that characterize the EU’s instDespite substantial progress, democratization is only a torso. Human and civil rights still do not meet Western European standards, religious and ethnic minorities are recognized only on paper, acknowledgment of the historic genocide of the Armenians is given mere lip service, and civilian control over the military remains weak.
尽管土耳其取得了实质性进步，但是民主化仍然残缺不全。人权以及民权仍然无法满足西欧标准，宗教和少数族裔只是在纸面上得到承认，承认史上对亚美尼亚人的种族屠杀还仅仅是口惠而实不至，而军队的平民控制依然微弱。