What kind of traditions does Turkey need to abandon in order to join the EU? Please be specific!?

Question

What Traditions! plz help thx

Answer 1

The tradition of denying genocide and jailing those who speak out about it.  

Approximately 1.5 MILLION Armenians died in an ethnic cleansing campaign circa 1915.  You don't get to simply sweep that kind of history under the rug and expect the rest of Europe to welcome you with open arms.

Answer 2

I don't know how smart it would be to allow Turkey to join Europe..

honestly speaking they are a bit to far behind, they would drag an already slowly stalling Union....

Their country has to first catch up a bit to the twentieth century before they can be integrated...

Answer 3

Well Turkish people have burnt down EU office when the Danish ran a cartoon and Turkey like other Muslims nations had protest. It protested when the Pope visited Turkey. Now what do you think other EU member think when they watch all this going on. Germany has three million Turks living in Germany 2007 they by most have express to the EU their objection of Turkey been a member of the EU. All so it has bad human right records. Plus the famous case of murdering his sister. www.europarl.europa.eu

Answer 4

Admitting System of A Down is right about the Armenians.

Answer 5

Turkey will never be a member of the European Union

- It has a high birth rate like a developping country

- It is growingly islamized in opposition to Europe which is a group of secular countries sharing all the same christian roots

- it has a strong discrimination against women which is NOT compatible with the European society

- it is a nationalist country which is the contrary of the European ideal

- it does not respect the right of minorities and their culture like it is the case for the greeks, armenians, etc...

- religious freedom is limited

- crime of honor are frequent

- it is a closed society and turkish people in Europe have the tendancy not to integrate and live in ghettos where they go because... they have a different culture which is not european.

Answer 6

Europeans and Turks are completely different people.

1) The main  thing I think that they are very strong Muslims. Although the government is speaking of secularism but people are strongly affected by Islam.

They always show off their so-called secularism while speaking of joining EU as if EVERY secular country should be a member of EU.

2) Besides that, there are some racist and pan-Turkist groups and organizations in Turkey ( or not in Turkey but supported by it ) that have attacked Christians:

- Assassination attempt on the Pope ( by Mehmet Ali Agca )

- Assassination of Hrant Dink, the Armenian journalist

- Assassination of three Orthodox priests in Maltaya

It would be a great stupidness if EU let such a murder of Christians in a Christian community

3) Denying the genocides led by Ottoman Turks against Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks

4) The criticize able situation of non-Turk minorities of Turkey ( Kurds, Armenians and other Christians)

5)The criticize able situation of freedom of speech

(Turkish thinkers and writers that have been forced to leave the country, because they were represented as traitorous because of speaking about the Armenian Genocide)

Turkey is NO WAY similar to Europe, and it will never be, because they are different people.

There are so many kinds of people all over the world, should all of them be a member of EU?!

Answer 7

Turkey needs to accept responsibility of the Armenian Genocide.

Turkey needs to accept the massacres of Pontic Greeks and Assyrians.

Turkey needs to solve the Cyprus issue.

Turkey needs to solve the problem with the Kurds.

Turkey needs to solve the problem with Iraq which includes PKK.

-Freedom of speech

-Womens rights.

-Human rights.

Turkey needs to revise article 301 which gives green light to all nationalists and killers and prosecutes anyone who speaks against the Armenian Genocide or anything that might "insult" Turkishness.

The mentality of the majority in Turkey is that they don't want to join EU.

Answer 8

Its not a matter of tradition....its a matter of culture........imagine the exact opposite of turkey.....WOW...great country!!!

Answer 9

turkey will never accept the armenian genocide because THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

and turkey will not accept what eu demands about cyprus, half of the cyprus is turkish and will stay like that

75% of turkish people do not want to enter the EU, so what are you talking about?