Turkey has put its mind to improving the damaged relations with the European Union and introducing a positive agenda to the negotiations with the EU leaders: this is a deceptive impression that could have been produced on an outside observer by the recent steps of the Turkish leadership. Indeed, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan himself participated in a video conference with the heads of the European Commission and Council of Europe Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel in the run-up to the EU summit scheduled for March 25-26. The Turkish leader signalled that Ankara expects the European states to...