The Path towards the European Union and Turkey. The War in Ukraine, a New Impetus?
The Path towards the European Union and Turkey. The War in Ukraine, a New Impetus?

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to study Turkey's Europeanisation process. The article wants to present the history of negotiations between Turkey and the EU, and the EU accession analysis through the case study to observe the development stage in the most relevant domains. Turkey is at the border of the European Union. About the methodology, the paper starts with the theoretical part (from special sources). There are official documents for studying international elements. The paper studies the official Occidental perspective of documents. Through the document analysis, the article is highlighting the relevant aspects from the negotiations for several years, following the progress made in the Turkish state in terms of potential accession to the European Union. In this way, the personal contribution is highlighted. In the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Turkey tried to influence the relationship with the European Union to get closer to it. In the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Turkey tried to influence the relationship with the European Union to get closer to it. The problem is that the Turkish state has not met all the membership conditions, to close all negotiation domains. To solve this problem, European Union is doing efforts by exposing mandatory requirements and advice relating to the accession negotiation process and the candidate country is trying to fulfil the related rules by negotiating groups and institutions created for membership. Unfortunately, at present, the candidate state is not so interested to integrate into Europe, taking into account a possible alternative to cooperate with Russia and China. Unfortunately, the current crisis put Turkey in a difficult situation. In recent years it can be seen a regression in democracy in the favour of the influence of Islam in government.

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