Obviously the murder of a Catholic priest in Trebizond in what is now Turkey is related to the Muhammed cartoons, but if Turkey ends up being admitted to the EU (an increasingly unlikely prospect, if you ask me), it seems likely there’d be more of this kind of thing. Maybe the people who follow EU issues more closely know different, but it seems to me the most effective way to get the Turkish public to turn against pursuit of EU membership is to point out that one result would be the admission of an unlimited number of Christian missionaries. After all, the State Department’s most recent religious freedom report about Turkey says “The Government’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) initiated a public campaign against Christian missionary activity in the country. High-level government officials made statements depicting missionaries as a threat.”