Two of a kind

Ukraine and Turkey share something in common: they're both moving towards Europe, if in fits and spurts. The latest eruption between past and present in Ukraine occurred over a BBC program, Great Ukrainians. It seems that a sudden, 11th hour voting spurt changed the outcome of the program. That has created an uproar in Ukraine with 77 Members of Parliament protesting the results. This battle was a Russian-leaning past vs a European-leaning present. In Turkey, the Constitutional Court has blocked the government's easing of the headscarf ban, saying it violates the constitutional principle of a secular state. It's a move that may sound the death kneel of the AK party. While the enforcement of the ban may help Turkey's sputtering EU accession process, Turkey's intelligence sharing arrangement with Iran over strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Iraq won't.