Abstract
Turkey is still waiting to be one of the European Union’s members. More than 50 years ago Turkey‘s government fi rst asked to join the European Union. During the time, other countries have joined, expanding the 6 members European club to 28. Unfortunately, even the most optimistic scenario says Turkey is unlikely to be part of the EU for at least another decade. While the European Union is working with Turkey to help it move toward being able to become a member of the European Union, there are some politicians and economists who are concerned about Turkey’s potential membership. < ose opposed to Turkish membership in the EU point to several issues that Turkey isn’t in Europe geographically, culturally; Turkey isn’t a part of Europe. Besides Turkey has a large population, high unemployment rate and migration as a potential problem for the EU. Accession of Turkey to the Union would be challenging both for the EU and Turkey. If incorporating will be well managed, it would off er important opportunities for both parties. Referred to above this paper aims at providing a brief overview of the EU’s accession process and Turkey’s path to the EU membership. Main hypothesis assumes that the Turkey’s accession to the EU is not simply down to a failure to comply with the offi cial membership criteria.
Highlights
Turkey is a candidate country for membership in the European Union following the Helsinki European Council of December 1999
Turkey has opened only 11 of 35 policy chapters that need to be negotiated, successfully closing just one. is is partly due to the issue of Cyprus problem, still divided between Greek and Turkish sides: Eight of the chapters are formally blocked because Turkey still refuses to open its ports and airports to traffic from Greek Cyprus. e main problem Turkey might have during accession negotiations is its non-recognition of Cyprus, a full-fledged member of the European Union
In December 2004, and despite the fact that Turkey had still not met its obligations regarding the application of its Customs Union to the European Union (the EU) member states, the European Council stated unanimously that Turkey had made enough progress in legislative process, economic stability, and judicial reform to proceed with accession talks within a year
Summary
Turkey is a candidate country for membership in the European Union (the EU) following the Helsinki European Council of December 1999. Accession negotiations have started in October 2005 with the analytical examination of the EU legislation (the so-called screening process).
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