Former Belgian co-chair of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Commission, Marc Galle, published a book in 1995 on how Europeans viewed Turkey. It was called “Turkey, the Disliked Country” (1995). The claim that Turkey is disliked among the European public has long been a fundamental argument used by European politicians to deny Turkey’s demands during negotiations: “Although you are right, we cannot agree to your demands because there is no way we could convince our public and would end up paying […]