The Turkish army and air arm is comprised of super good guys; they're excellent flyers and good troops. However, having spent a year trying to keep them from the throats of their Greek neighbors and onserving their social conduct, I think they have a long way to go before the EU will, or should, wrpa them in the fold. To become a member of the EU a nation-state must pledge to conform to a set of rights and governmental obligations that essentially track our Bill of Rights and the social-welfare guarantees of EU compact.
The EU is basically an agreement to the globalization and connectivity of the western nations, Japan and the U.S. Turkey is so highly fractionalized and divided by religious interets that their EU acceotance is highly problematic.
Read: 'The United States of Europe,' an excellent book that describes the EU.