At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when dialogue with the Islamic world is one of the Western world’s key challenges, Europe would commit a historic strategic blunder if it were to close its doors to Turkey. To do so would push back the inheritors of the Ottoman Empire back onto an Asian, Muslim, and Middle Eastern historical trajectory.
在这21世纪初，与伊斯兰世界展开对话是西方世界面临的主要挑战之一，在这个时候，如果欧洲要对土耳其关上大门，那么它将铸成一个历史性的战略错误。这样做会把奥斯曼帝国的后裔们推回到亚洲、穆斯林和中东的历史轨道中去。