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by maephisto 2966 days ago
The South America / islands and included because they are territories belonging to a EU country (France, Spain, Portugal). Turkey is in there because it's a candidate country.
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Is it still? It's a human rights nightmare and I don't think the EU should have anything to do with Turkey while Erdogan is still in power.
It's still a candidate. It's moving backwards rather than forwards on its acceptance criteria, and realistically won't be joining anytime soon, but it's still a candidate.
It's not really a question anymore for the next few years (or decades). Official status is just a political tool by now and even then this classification may lag behind.
GP most likely knows and is just passive-aggressively complaining about the conflation of 'Europe' and 'EU' in the title.