Let's Keep Turkey Out of Europe:
Dr. Michael Stuermer, Foreign Policy Analyst with Die Welt newspaper; Dr. John Casey, Fellow of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge; and Kevin Myers, a broadcaster, columnist, novelist, and award-winning correspondent for his coverage of the conflicts in Bosnia and Northern Ireland spoke for the motion. Norman Stone, Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University and Director of the Russian-Turkish Centre; Dominique Moisi, political analyst and Deputy Director of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI); and Mark Leonard, Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform and one of Britain's best-known foreign policy thinkers spoke against the motion.
The debate was chaired by writer and broadcaster Francine Stock.
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