Possible Clues:

• Thanksgiving menu item
• Lust aroused by indispensable bird
• Change of direction almost crucial for would-be EC member
• Ankara its capital
• Christmas bird or theatrical flop
• Country and domesticated bird
• Grassy earth almost essential for certain fowl
• Partly European country
• Period of frenzy over crucial land
• Where there's some talk of the business of Xmas