The expectation that Turkey's accession to the EU will "Europeanize" its political behavior to such an extent that it will gradually abandon its expansionist aspirations in the Aegean and voluntarily withdraw from Cyprus, consenting to a mutually acceptable solution to the Cyprus issue, is more of a wish or self-deception than a product of coherent political analysis.
It is a tiresome political retro to repeat today, at the dawn of the 21st century, almost unchanged the arguments that were put forward half a century ago, in the 1950s, when Greece and Turkey's accession to NATO in 1952 was propagandized as symbolic of the elimination of Greek-Turkish problems. It did not take even three years for Greece to suffer the humiliation of Smyrna in 1955, while it was proven that the accession of the two countries to NATO multiplied rather than reduced the problems.
The least one can say is that a broad and serious discussion is required for both aspects of the issue of the discussed Turkish accession, both for its impact on European integration and for its impact on the Cyprus and Greek-Turkish issues.
Exactly for this purpose, the opinion of Sylvie Goulard is very useful, as it brings to the necessary discussion the perspective of a large European country, such as France, free from any Turkish threat or any anti-Turkish syndrome of historical origins. "Will the European Union pull Turkey towards modernization or will Turkey make the EU regress?" she wonders, without hesitating to answer clearly.