They deserve one another
The EEC (”Common Market”) predecessor of the EU has been teasing the Turks about membership since about 1960, and the historically-challenged op-ed here doesn’t mention much about that. IOW, I’d have agreed with you wholeheartedly prior to the Russian escalation over the Syrian uprising.
The jokers who put their names to this op-ed, plus the nameless faceless Euro-crats who actually wrote it, put in some lip service about Cyprus, but the truth is, the EU is suddenly all about economics, and the Greek and Greek-Cypriote objections to Turkey in the EU will be ignored and/or overriden.
The big mystery to these bozos is, just how expansive does the EU expect the Turkish economy to be after its attempt at a common market of the Middle East fell apart with the Syrian disintegration, Assad and Iran threatening Turkey, Turkey invading Iraqi Kurdistan repeatedly at at the drop of a hat over the past twenty years, Iran about to experience the same uprisings as the Arab states have been enjoying, US pullout from Iraq (that has meant at least some commercial activity in Turkey; so for that matter has the US involvement in Afghanistan), and Erdogan’s campaign of hate against Israel, the one country in the whole Middle East that makes a reliable ally?