How Did Turkey Become A Member To The European Union?
Turkey has been associated to Europe much longer than many of the member or prospective member states. Turkey’s application to signing up for becoming a member to the European Union was made on 14 April 1987. Turkey has been an associate member of the European Union (then European Community) since 1963 with the Ankara Agreement. Turkey was one of the first countries to become a member of the Council of Europe in 1949. Therefore it is important to examine the important political and economic milestones of Turkey’s candidacy path to see what achievements it earned and what obstacles it has faced. This review and analysis will allow as to arrive at some conclusions and come up with some policy recommendations for the future. This paper will look
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Although it forced Turkey to face some concessions, the customs union proved to be beneficial for the Turkish industry, as it gave easy access to Western Europe and improved domestic competition. However Turkey clearly did not want to make do with this union, it wanted full membership. And with some of the restrictive and consequently harmful provisions of the customs union agreement, “second class” partnership for Turkey was clearly unacceptable. As I will mention later in my paper regarding the success of Ismail Cem, the Helsinki decision of 1999 was a very important step towards this commitment. Turkey was declared an official candidate for EU accession and negotiations were to start in …show more content…
It always seems to come to the point where somebody thinks, even if Turkey would fulfill all the criteria put forward by the EU, it wouldn’t be accepted, because it’s a predominantly Muslim country. We have seen that there are rises and falls regarding Turkey-EU relations, and even if some like Ismail Cem think a country must not necessarily have a straightforward identity, it always seems to boil down to particularly to that issue, and the AKP government seems to have consolidated this. I think Cem’s opinions need to be given more credit to. I think that is to way to both achieve peace and stability and coexist, weather with the West, or with the
Although it forced Turkey to face some concessions, the customs union proved to be beneficial for the Turkish industry, as it gave easy access to Western Europe and improved domestic competition. However Turkey clearly did not want to make do with this union, it wanted full membership. And with some of the restrictive and consequently harmful provisions of the customs union agreement, “second class” partnership for Turkey was clearly unacceptable. As I will mention later in my paper regarding the success of Ismail Cem, the Helsinki decision of 1999 was a very important step towards this commitment. Turkey was declared an official candidate for EU accession and negotiations were to start in …show more content…
It always seems to come to the point where somebody thinks, even if Turkey would fulfill all the criteria put forward by the EU, it wouldn’t be accepted, because it’s a predominantly Muslim country. We have seen that there are rises and falls regarding Turkey-EU relations, and even if some like Ismail Cem think a country must not necessarily have a straightforward identity, it always seems to boil down to particularly to that issue, and the AKP government seems to have consolidated this. I think Cem’s opinions need to be given more credit to. I think that is to way to both achieve peace and stability and coexist, weather with the West, or with the