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Sir, Against the background of discussion about Turkey's chances of accession to the European Union slipping away, Guler Sabanci's article ("Why the European Union needs Turkey", November 7) should be taken very seriously by Brussels and individual capitals such as Athens, Nicosia, Paris and Vienna. Ms Sabanci reminds FT readers not just of the multi-ethnic, multi-denominational, geographical, historical and other advantages of Turkey being a member of the EU, but that it was the Greek Cypriots who, at the last minute, rejected the plan of Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, for a "united" Cyprus to enter the EU in May 2004(a plan Turkish Cypriots had approved), thereby consigning Cyprus to remaining a divided island with the Turkish-Cypriot part isolated from the EU and international community up to the present time.
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