Edited sentence: It also daily violates Greek airspace which resulted in the death of a Greek pilot due to a collision.It is illegal to say anything deemed "Anti-Turkish" in Turkey, which includes insulting Ataturk, recognising the Armenian genocide, etc and has resulted in the imprisonment of many Turkish intellectuals and journalists (more journalists are imprisoned in Turkey every year than anywhere else in the world, including Iran and China).Lack of religious freedom, in particular for the (Greek and Armenian) Orthodox minorities.The French opposition leader, Sergolene Royal has stated that Turkey must recognise the genocide before it can be admitted to the EU.The Turkish Government's refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide (committed by Turkey during WWI resulting in the murder of 1.5-2 million Armenian civilians).The Turkish people are not European, as they are native to Turkestan (Central Asia).The fact that the Turkish military (responsible for 3 coups from 1960-1980)is too powerful and threatens the government.The illegal ongoing occupation of almost 40% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, thus occupying EU territory, and after ethnically cleansing 200,000 Greek-Cypriots from their lands in the occupied territories in the 1974 invasion, still refuses to let them reclaim their properties (which have now been occupied by Turkish settlers from the mainland in violation of the Geneva Conventions).The lack of freedom of speech in Turkey.The leader of the Bavarian Christian party has stated this is another reason to refuse Turkey EU entry.This has been seen lately as it has defended "secularism" and warned not elect an Islamic president.Thus many of their customs, culture and language (which was changed from Arabic script to the Latin alphabet in 1930 by Ataturk) are not European.Turkey's support terrorism in the form of  the Chechens