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Turkey - EU Prudent but Determined Partnership
Turkey - EU Prudent but Determined Partnership

Author(s): Oktay Aksoy
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Dış Politika Enstitüsü

Summary/Abstract: Membership in the EU is seen by many in Turkey as the culmination of the reform efforts, a natural end of the road taken since the establishment of the Republic. Since the Helsinki Council at the end of 1999 where Turkey was accorded candidate status on the basis of the same criteria applied to other candidate states, these efforts have been accelerated. Turkey has time and again demonstrated its determination. It is now the turn of the EU members not to hesitate.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 434-444
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English