On Europe's Edge

First broadcast July 2007

Countries in the Balkans, the former Soviet Union and Turkey, hope to join the European Union. It's a waiting game.

BBC Brussels correspondent Oana Lungescu presents the second of three programmes about the problems facing countries seeking membership.

Programme two: On Europe's Edge - Turkey

Of all the countries aspiring to join the European Union, Turkey is the biggest and the most problematic.

The forthcoming election could set the country's future course and clarify its relations with the EU. But, at a time when Turkey's membership talks seem to have stalled, Turks are getting increasingly frustrated.

Their fraught relations with Europe are throwing into sharp relief wider issues about the country's identity, its relationship with the military and ethnic groups and its strategic choices.

Click here to view Oana's pictures for this programme

From the cosmopolitan Istanbul, Oana travels to pious but hard-working Anatolian city of Kayseri and finally to the tense border with Iraq.

If Turkey continues to look west, this could one day be the EU's final frontier.

Series Producer: Michael Gallagher

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