What is a good international issue for a persuasive paper?

[Hippopo]

Valid argument.

Also, I liked the music.

[Houdini]

Legalize industrial hemp. DUUUHHHH

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insurance the and problem with medicalized psychiatry

[strongbad]

Legalize industrial hemp. DUUUHHHH

Too many people wrote our last persuasive paper on legalizing weed so we aren't allowed to do anything cannabis related lols

[strongbad]

Should Turkey be allowed to join the EU?

I'm going to write about this actually. I'll be doing research for the next couple hours to decide my claim. Just for the sake of differing opinions, does anybody have a strong stance on this issue that they could state and provide backing?

[snoorkel]

yes, TR should be disallowed from joining because

- turkey is not in europe
- new world order
- turkey is terrorists.

pretty clear cut case inmo.

[spoiler]You could make a legitimate argument that the EU has already hugely over-extended itself, which is more or less the cause of the current 'crisis', so it currently makes no sense to add another massive liability to the mix. I'm sure there are many political reasons for admitting Turkey, but the finance aspect is obviously one of the most important.[/spoiler]

[silvertone]

4th reason: turkey shouldn't even exist

[Hippopo]

Why would you want to write a paper on such a boring topic? 

Yuck.

[spoiler]I like Turkey, but I have no steadfast opinion on the EU issue...[/spoiler]

[strongbad]

- turkey is not in europe

They are mostly in europe, especially given the density of their population in the overlapping part. But yeah I am going to write about it.

[Hippopo]

They are mostly in europe, especially given the density of their population in the overlapping part. But yeah I am going to write about it.

lol, wut?

Isn't Thrace the only part geographically in Europe?  The rest is in Asia, man.

[snoorkel]

"Turkey is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe." (from the official wikipedia)

... so both but its landmass is continuous to the east and very severely cut off from europe on the west, so I'd say asia, middle-east, anatolia is probably best

[Travis]

Turkey is what I eat for Lunch

[YPrrrr]

Adding Turkey would also be a major issue as far as illegal immigration because the free movement of the EU would allow much easier access from the Middle East. Furthermore they also have a huge issue with Cyprus and Greece, existing EU countries due to their military action in Cyprus.

There is more but I've got to go drink, bye

[Hippopo]

"Turkey is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe." (from the official wikipedia)

... so both but its landmass is continuous to the east and very severely cut off from europe on the west, so I'd say asia, middle-east, anatolia is probably best

The Anatolian peninsula is still on the Asian continent though. Turkey is very much considered the middle-east...  (Well, at least for me.)

In terms of the way the country functions and is heading, I could see why it would gain admission into the EU.  As long as it benefits both the Union and Turkey, why not?

That's what I think.

Still, this topic is so boring compared to the vast amount of international issues going on at the moment.

[Hippopo]

Adding Turkey would also be a major issue as far as illegal immigration because the free movement of the EU would allow much easier access from the Middle East. Furthermore they also have a huge issue with Cyprus and Greece, existing EU countries due to their military action in Cyprus.

There is more but I've got to go drink, bye

I've never looked into illegal immigration over seas, but what's preventing immigrants from crossing over now that would be gone if Turkey joined the union?