Turkey joining the EU?

Question

how long do you think it will take for Turkey to join the EU? and if they do will it be easy for them to visit and move to England?

Answer 1

if Türkiye has only 3% in europe, which part does Cyprus have??

one thing to know almost 70% of population in Türkiye don't want to enter EU.

still i think we (Turks) need at least 15 years. some parts of Türkiye is European (İstanbul, İzmir, Antalya, Ankara, Bodrum...) But East parts have problem with education, terrorism (PKK, terrorist group formed by Kurds). Another problem is population, we are too crowded; over 70 million people, that's really a lot. there should be a policy (like China's one child policy) to lower the population

inflation should be lower

unemployment rate should be lower

education level should be higher

more universities to be opened

government (religious party) should be replaced with a secularist democratic party

our economy should be improved

then even EU offers Türkiye to enter, we will refuse it

but a long way to go :)

Answer 2

Turkey will not be joining the EU any time soon seeing French President Nicholas Sarkozy is adamantly opposed to the idea along with a significant number of members of the European Parliament.

Integrating Turkey into Europe opens a lot of doors many people do not want to be opened.

Answer 3

I guess it'll take at least 30 years! and it won't be easy as soon as they joing the EU,it'll take a long time.

Answer 4

No time frame in such matters can be laid down ,only contemplated with much uncertainity.

For political compulsions a diplomatic row is avoided by not refusing outrightly ( fundamentally that rejection is obvious).



The political fall out for the EU in maintaining ambiguity is obvious.The Turks are required to  make all the changes to make their society more like the EU,secure borders,curbs on Islamic parties,Human rights,safer travel,political freedoms,modern transport to help more relaible entry and exit of goods to the EU,keep a dead issue of Armenia alive,punish Turkey for its ralations and support of its ethnic minority in Cyprus,(human rights not involved here),keep the Kurdish issue in focus.Some changes are surely necessary in a state under military control.

I hope Turkey does well on its own steam, becomes a modern state ruled by  a Just political and Judicial system  wherein prosperity lies for it citizens.

I do not envision Turkey ever joining the EU.The rejection level is screamingly too high to miss unless one is stone deaf and blind too.

Answer 5

I don't think Turkey will be joining.  I can't speak as an expert as I'm an american, but through my coming to Germany, I've learned a lot about how the EU functions.  First of all, major policy issues such as accessing a new member require unanimous consent.  Austria, is strongly against.  Nicholas Sarkozy (I love this guy) of France is strongly against, and Angela Merkel of Germany is against (and she will have a strong majority next election).  Turkey won't get in and rightfully so.  The notion is absurd.  Turkey is not in Europe (ok 3%), and shares no common cultural values with Europeans.   If Turkey gets in, where is the Canadian invite? They are commonwealth.  The same loose logic for admitting Turkey would lead to a boarderless EU.  Hey pretty soon we can all be Europeans.  YEAH!  I hope everyone picked up on my sarcasm, because I was laying it on real thick.  :-)

Answer 6

its just a game, look who is join' in EU  n u'll figure it out

Answer 7

A mid-review is sxheduled for 2008, but they want the timetable open because it coincides with coming EU institutional reforms.  As for Turkey's entrance into the EU, progress in some areas has been slow. But so far, everything Turkey has done so far has been done on good faith – notwithstanding previous rhetorics by EU leaders – such as Valery Giscard D’Estaing’s declaration that admitting Turkey would be the “end of Europe.”

If Turkey is given a formal timetable, the long runup to EU membership will transform and stabilize the country – just as it wholly transformed, in less than a decade, the Eastern European states they admitted.

It will definitely take some time because of a lot of underlying issues. Most importantly within the EU itself, apart from Turkey's "issues", members have to overcome their subjectiveness and prejudices over Turkey's religion with contrasts highly with their own.  Until that hurdle is overcome, it will take a long long time.

Answer 8

Well after Romania and Bulgaria entered i understood that everything is just a game. If it was two years ago i would make a comment and write a big article about this subject here. I live in France at the moment and it is sad to see how a country is going down and losing money all the time. %12,5 unemployment. In Germany the rate of birth is like 0. The companies are just going down, searching other market areas. The education level is going down and down.(French are not happy about this either)

Hmmm do i want to enter in European Community? Well,no. Sorry to blow your bubble.

Answer 9

Turkey is Muslim  Europe

Answer 10

i hadn't heard that, thanks for sharing