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This paper looks at the impact Turkish EU membership could have on the future of Europe. The author argues that the evolution of the EU towards a path of differentiated integration, with a new type of membership for Turkey, could provide the Union with further opportunities to deepen integration in different policy areas and greater flexibility in common decisions. She concludes that if Turkey becomes one of the first examples of such a scheme, the future of European integration would drastically change, transforming the EU into a new blend of an organizational core, and a system of functionally differentiated units.