Free Essays: Argumentative Essay - Turkey in EU.
The EU is unlikely to agree on giving any accession date to Turkey. But those member states strongly in favour of Turkey’s EU membership should propose 2023 as a target date, for the benefit of all concerned. Cengiz Aktar is director of the EU centre of Bahcesehir University in Istanbul and a columnist for Vatan and Turkish Daily News.
Turkey should not join the EU because the EU should not exist in the first place. While the premise of the EU is good, it is ultimately bad for interests through out the world. Each nation should be sovereign and treating each nation as a state marginalizes local government and creates a bureaucracy that is hard to break if the system fails to work properly.
We Turks know that we will never be the part of the EU. and most of turkish people also against being the part of the european union including me. the EU in fact is a christian union so we are muslims our customs and traditions are completely different. also, while british people want to get out of the Eu, why would turkish people want to get in? we have stable economy and good reputation.
EU established a Customs Union with Turkey in 1995 with its scope based on manufactured products between Turkey and EU. Negotiations were underway in October 2005 to make Turkey a member state. During the same time, EU closed one provisional chapter including Science and Research (2006) as it opened negotiations for seven other chapters in consideration to the Turkey application to join EU.
For example, German chancellor Angela Merkel repeated several times that she would greatly prefer a privileged partnership for Turkey, even at times when many laws in Turkey were changed to be in line with EU laws (for example, abolishment of death penalty). Freedom of press, separation of church, corruption etc. are also issues in many of the Eastern European states that became EU members.
Ultimately, if given the chance to decide whether or not Turkey should be admitted into the European Union, it would be the decision of this author that this should indeed take place. The rational for this is nuanced. Firstly, it is clear that Europe has lost a great deal of skilled and unskilled manufacturing jobs over the past several decades to the developing nations in Asia and elsewhere.
Note: This Paper was originally written in 2005 and does no longer reflect recent developments in Turkey. I have therefore posted a revised version. An updated paper will be posted here shortly.