Bush once again made clear that he supports Turkey’s quest to join the European Union. He made his comments at the US-EU summit in Slovenia.

And, by the way, one subject we didn’t spend a lot of time on that I’d like to clarify the U.S. position on is, we strongly believe Turkey ought to be a member of the EU, and we appreciate Turkey’s record of democratic and free market reforms, and working to realize its EU aspirations.

Turkey’s democratic record appears to appeal to Bush. In recent months, Bush’s ardent belief in spreading democracy to Muslim countries has been confirmed by some very interesting leaked private conversations. And Scott McClellan.