Opinion on Turkey’s Request for Accession to the European Union

The independence of Turkey and its early development as a country full of energetic youth required a combination of two almost contradictory ideals : In order to illustrate its disassociation with the past Ottoman authority the new government desired international style which expresses scientific modernization and political liberation; However, the Kemalists also wanted to preserve a certain degree of cultural root in order to boost, if not, maintain nationalistic devotion of its citizens. Consequently, a new hybridization of theses two ideals emerged

Since 1950 European Union (EU) was created it has promoted peace, prosperity and values among the member nations and its neighbouring countries. EU’s influential tools, has helped transform many European states into functioning democracies and prosperous countries. EU’s membership has grown from 6 to 28 countries (Enlargement, 2014), satisfying a historic vow to integrate the continent bringing in most states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by peaceful ideals.EU has anticipated the enlargement as an extraordinary opportunity to endorse political strength and economic success in Europe. EU’s extension policy is open to any European state that fulfils the EU’s political and financial criteria for membership; still the political process of inclusion of new state requires a unanimous agreement from all the existing 28 member states. Europe is considered to be more flourishing and safer place due to the promotion of democracy, anti-corruption policy and the single market policy.

What has lead Turkey to dramatically shift its policy? How big of a role has the sense of identity play in this matter? This paper will argue that although the population of Turkey is predominantly Muslim, it also represents a secular state with western style democracy. It plays a critical geopolitical role since it is in the center of Europe and the Middle East. It is also the revival of an identity the Islamist feared had been overshadowed by the West and the Western culture. Therefore, in today’s globalized world, Turkey plays a vital role in complying both Islamic and western ideals to appeal to both of the civilizations.

In addition to the issue of national security, another factor that accounts for the controversy on the refugee crisis is the perplexing relationship between economic stability and the basic standards of humanity. Many Europeans are living under precarious conditions and thus, they lack the time and money to spare. Consequently, many Europeans think of Muslim migrants less as refugees but as “competitors with similar levels of prospects” (“Eastern Europe's Crisis of Compassion”). The concern over economic instability is also plays a role in the Turkish accession to the European Union (EU). Many Europeans are anxious about Turks immigrating to Europe in search of jobs when the unemployment rate in Europe is already so high. Moreover, Europeans

In this essay Turkey is the main subject and the people, customs and courtesies, lifestyle, and society. Also you will learn that Turkey can be a lot different than the U.S. from the way they greet people to how their government works.

Turkey is located in Asia and Europe. Turkey is not land locked because there are two seas bordering Turkey; it’s the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. There are eight countries that border Turkey. To the east, there are Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. To the west, there are Greece, and Bulgaria. To the south, there are Iraq and Syria.

The kurds and israelis have abandoned the past and even the holy city of Iran has been supporting Turkey's secular regime, and the international column has been running amok in Turkey for a while.

Summary: Although the numbers can be deceiving, Turkey is a very diverse country with a population of 75 million. Turkey’s population of 75 million is very well educated, in this country it is customary to go to 4 years of elementary school, 4 years of middle school, and 4 years of high school. Although 98% of that 75 million (73,500,000) practices the Islamic religion, they all come from different backgrounds. You can tell that because of the very diverse range of languages spoken throughout the country. 75% of the population speaks Turkish, The second most spoken language is Kurdish and third most is Arabic. The most popular foreign languages are 17% English, German 5% and French 3%. They may have a lot of English Speakers because Turkey and U.S. are allies and are on good terms with each other. Remember that all of these factors will lead to cultural differences. In Turkey you greet someone by shaking their hand or if they are a friend you give them a light hug and place a kiss on their cheek. These are some ways that Turkish people show respect for one another. These are all factors of why people would want to live here and why this country has a total population of about 75

Turkey is located in the Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia and is about the size of Texas. It is surrounded in the region by countries that are experiencing unrest and civil war, the continued surrounding instability worries the Turkish population (Atun, 2015). Turkey has the country of Iran to its east, Iraq and Syria to its southeast along with the Mediterranean Sea on its southern flank, Greece and Bulgaria to the west and north past the Black Sea is Russia, the Ukraine and Romania. The official language of Turkey is a Uralic-Altaic language with about 20 different dialects but, portions of the population speak Kurdish along with a variety of minor languages (Purnell, 2013). The current population is 77.8 million people with an average life expectancy of 72.5 years (Turkey Population, 2016)). The majority of the Turkish population is Sunni Muslim at 99 percent and approximately less than one percent Christians and Jews (Pozanti, 1995), additionally, the government does not mandate a religion. To describe the Turkish people in terms of their skin tones

While the European Union has recently expanded to welcome Croatia in 2013 and seven more countries ranging from Iceland to Turkey to Montenegro have applied for accession , my paper argues that the European Union will not expand due to the effects and legacy of the 2008-2009 Eurozone crisis as well as the unfettered growth of Euroscepticism and right-wing parties.

Eurozone and the EU institutions failed to detect that. This undermines the ability of EU institutions to deal effectively with challenges of integration of new members as well as opens the possibility that the EU is not immune to similar occurrences in the future. Finally, since the onset of the European economic crisis, the EU has accessed only one new member in 2013 - Croatia. Thus, the stalling of EU explanation since the octet of the crisis can undoubtedly be attributed at least partially to economic factors. Ultimately, though, the long-term effects of this crisis on EU integration cannot be conclusively established at this point, as the crisis is still ongoing. Therefore, next I look over the conventional wisdom about the factors

While early EU history is marked by efforts to abridge political and economic gaps between formal enemies, recent EU enlargement is a one of tensions between established and new member interests and broader interests of the organization itself. In recent decades, the most prominent issue of EU integration is the ongoing discussion in established member states on expansion prospects. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War opened the possibility for immense political and economic transformation for Eastern European states. The result of this transformation brought the unprecedented possibility for many post-communist states to join the EU. This possibility, however, is met with hostility on domestic level in some of the

Through secularist policies, the country attempted to introduce further reforms to meet the guidelines of EU admission. Turkey believe in 1997 that their time had finally come. At the Luxembourg Summit, the EU announced they wanted to push East. However, Turkey was not included on the list of prospective post-communist, Warsaw Pact countries, because the EU claimed once again that Turkey did not meet the Copenhagen Criteria for accession, even though many of the proposed countries were shaky on their human rights positions as well (European Council in Copenhagen 2017). Taking the news in stride, only two year later in 1999 at the Helsinki Summit, Turkey gained an official candidate status. Sensing the closeness of achieving a goal that has spanned 50 years, the country introduced massive political reform packages and eight constitutional amendments (Bogdani 2010, 23). Finally, in 2004, the European Council decided to begin accession negotiations with

When Greece saw the possibility of joining the European Union in 1981, lack of transparency and misreported figures in its bookkeeping system allowed the country to meet the criteria and become a new member of the Eurozone. As investors were confident on the stability of the Euro, Greece was able to borrow cheaply from the European financial markets and sustain an expansionary policy between 2001 and 2007.

Initially, in the period of membership negotiations until the EU referendum in 2003, opinion poll reveals that Czechs are not Eurosceptics (Riishøj, 2007). Prior to 2004, EU accession was supported by the majority of Czech citizens with 77.3 per cent support EU accession (Bönker, 2006; Čábelková et al., 2015). However, decades later the perspective of EMU integration has reversed remarkably (Čábelková et al., 2015).