Tag: Turkey – EU

Why doesn’t Europe accept Turkey into its Union?

Turks used to think that “the West” was a civilization. Yet for the past 100 years they have seen that this is not true. To be “a civilization,” they should act civilized; but they don’t. The latest examples: Two World Wars, Palestine genocide, childish nuclear pissing contest with Russia.

On the contrary, the West was as bloody as any bloody period in human history, if not more so. They enriched themselves on the backs of the poor nations through open and hidden slavery, invaded areas with rich underground resources, eliminated much of the native populations, brought slaves, and dominated the world.

They became richer, not because they were better people, but because they were not. This then gave them a superiority complex. Almost all wars were started by them.

The superiority complex, made them racists, belittled any people who didn’t dress, talk, or lived like them. So, here we have a Europe who cannot stand Turks and their music, food, religion, just seeing them among themselves is enough to find any reason to reject entry into the EU.

As an example, In the 20th Century, if you count Russia as part of the West, this academic report says the Western countries have killed 30 times more defenseless civilians as the Islamic World: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM.

The difference is not a percentage; it is 30 times. The disparity ratio increases to 60, if you eliminate the two Jewish leaders in the transition from the Ottoman-to-Republic period.

The situation is not any better when it comes to starting wars and various conflicts around the world.

So, I think the world should come up with a better definition of what “a civilization” is, to help educate the World public opinion to create a just and civil world order.

This education should start how the Muslims taught them “equality among all before God,” and equal justice, mathematics, musical notes; how all major scientific disciplines were started by Muslims, including scientific methodology, mathematical algorithms, which are the bases of today’s computational science. Your students used to come to Islamic City universities to study. They all had large libraries.

Did you get my meaning, EU?

Or are you still busy robbing various nations of their diamond, rare elements, petroleum, natural gas, their cheap labor, so that you have no time to spare for Turkiye’s application to enter EU?

Well, don’t bother. Many of us are fed up with your complexes also.Isn’t this the reason you sent your warships to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel, to protect “your rights’ as a colonialist on the rich natural gas fields, worth hundreds of trillions of Dollars, that don’t belong to you but to the nations with shores on that sea.

Güneş Ecer

December 5, 2024
Will Turkey EVER Join the EU?

Turkey is the European Union’s oldest candidate member. Since 1999, the EU and Turkey have been in talks to allow the country to join and redefine the borders of Europe. 24 years on, and it still doesn’t look like their accession is likely. Why? In this video, we cover what’s stopping Turkey from joining the EU and whether anything is likely to change soon.

April 3, 2023
EU commissioner sees momentum in Turkey bid

By Andreas Rinke

BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union’s enlargement commissioner said he expected a breakthrough this year in Turkey’s stalled EU membership bid and welcomed Ankara’s peace talks with Kurdish rebels and reforms of its justice system.

Turkey began talks on joining the European Union in 2005 but has only completed one of the 35 policy areas, or “chapters”, every candidate must conclude to be allowed entry due to disagreements over the divided island of Cyprus and hostility especially from France, though that is now easing somewhat.

Commissioner Stefan Fule called on EU states to recognise Turkey’s reform efforts, to open further policy negotiations with Ankara and to show more “credibility” in the talks.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has called Turkey’s wait to join the bloc “unforgivable” and has accused Brussels of not being a fair or genuine negotiation partner.

Fule, a Czech, wants four further chapters to be opened this year, including the one entitled “fundamental rights”, noting this could help steer Ankara’s future reforms.

“This chapter is the strongest transformational element that we have,” he told Reuters in an interview in Berlin.

Turkey’s parliament last week approved a reform of its anti-terrorism laws, narrowing the definition of terrorist propaganda in line with EU demands that it boost freedom of expression.

The changes coincide with progress in efforts by the government and Kurdish militants to negotiate an end to a 28-year insurgency.

Fule expressed optimism there would be progress in talks on easing visa restrictions for Turks travelling to the EU.

Fule urged Ankara to extend a customs agreement with the European Union by opening its ports to goods from Cyprus, one of the key issues hindering its ambitions to join the EU.

Turkey has no diplomatic relations with the Republic of Cyprus, an EU member since 2004, instead backing a breakaway Turkish Cypriot entity in the north of the Mediterranean island.

Cyprus is currently distracted by its financial crisis after it had to request emergency loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund to avert bankruptcy, but Fule said he hoped President Nicos Anastasiades would bring “new energy and ideas” to the task of reviving stalled reunification talks.

Anastasiades backed a 2004 U.N. plan to reunite the island, though a majority of his Greek Cypriot compatriots rejected the plan in a referendum shortly before they joined the EU. The Turkish Cypriots in the north backed the plan.

(Writing by Alexandra Hudson, editing by Gareth Jones)

Euronews

April 20, 2013
Irish call to Turkey

DUBLIN – The Irish Presidency of the EU has urged Turkey to comply with its obligation to fully implement the additional protocol and to make progress in normalizing its bilateral relations with the Republic of Cyprus.

Irish European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton speaking Wednesday before the European Parliament in Strasburg, during a discussion on Turkey’s progress report, noted that there is no progress as regards the full implementation of the additional protocol, which provides for the recognition of Cyprus.

She also stressed that it is unfortunate that Turkey chose to freeze its relations with the EU during the Cyprus Presidency last July and urged the candidate country to normalize its relations with Cyprus.

Creighton also referred to the need for constitutional changes in Turkey and progress in the human rights issue.

Accession negotiations with Turkey began in October 2005. Turkey has so far managed to open 13 of the 34 chapters.

In December 2006, due to the Turkish failure to apply the Additional Protocol to the Ankara Agreement, the European Council decided that eight relevant chapters will not be opened and no chapter will be provisionally closed until Turkey has fulfilled its commitment.

In addition, France has frozen other five chapters, while Cyprus froze in December 2009 other six chapters. The last time that a negotiating chapter opened was during the Spanish EU presidency in June 2010.

Turkey, whose troops have occupied Cyprus’ northern part since the 1974 invasion, does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus and refuses to normalise relations with Nicosia.

April 20, 2013
EP: EU and Turkey must renew their mutual engagement, MEPs say

18 April 2013 | 13:58 | FOCUS News Agency

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Strasbourg. Renewed mutual engagement is needed to maintain constructive relations in EU-Turkey relations in the context of the negotiation process, MEPs said on Thursday, a press release of the European Parliament informs. In a resolution on the 2012 progress report on Turkey, they call for opening of negotiations on the judiciary, fundamental rights, and home affairs and praise recent talks which might help settle the Kurdish issue.
“We need commitment from both the EU and Turkey,” said Ria Oomen-Ruijten (EPP, NL), the EP rapporteur for Turkey. “Turkey needs to step up efforts to guarantee freedom of expression, media freedom and all other fundamental freedoms in line with the values of the EU. The EU must do its utmost to support Turkey in the reform process – renewed efforts for the opening of further negotiation chapters are important,” she added.
Judicial reform
Reform of Turkey’s judiciary is central to its democratic consolidation and modernisation, MEPs stress. They welcome the adoption of the third and fourth judicial reform packages but insist on fully narrowing the broad definition of criminal offences, namely of the act of terrorism, shortening excessively long pre-trial detention periods and curbing the role of special courts in practice.
To accelerate the reform process, MEPs call on the Council to open negotiations on the judiciary and fundamental rights (chapter 23) and justice, freedom and security (chapter 24).
Women’s rights
Parliament hails Turkey’s efforts to fight “honour killings”, domestic violence and phenomenon of forced marriages and child brides but is concerned that violence against women is still recurrent. MEPs also call for active promotion of women’s rights, education and participation in the labour market and in politics.
Kurdish issue
MEPs welcome direct political dialogue between the government and former PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and say this might open the perspective of a historic agreement settling the Kurdish issue peacefully and democratically.
Cyprus Presidency “missed opportunity”
MEPs regret that Turkey had “missed an important opportunity to start a process of engagement and normalisation of relations with Cyprus” during the Cypriot Presidency of the Council.
Syria and foreign affairs
MEPs praise Turkey for its humanitarian assistance to the increasing number of Syrian refugees but insist that the EU and Turkey should also develop joint strategic vision allowing ending the tragic crisis in Syria. They also say Turkey should develop its foreign policy in closer dialogue and coordination with the EU than in 2012.

April 19, 2013
Berzins thanks Turkey for supporting Latvia’s Euro-Atlantic integration

In his address during yesterday’s official dinner in honor of visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Latvian President Andris Berzins thanked Turkey for supporting Latvia’s Euro-Atlantic integration after the restoration of Latvia’s independence, the Presidential Press Service informed LETA.

“We will always remember that Turkey never recognized Latvia’s incorporation into the Soviet Union. We are also most thankful for your support for Latvia’s Euro-Atlantic integration after the restoration of our country’s independence. Today, too, we feel Turkey’s friendship as it takes part in the Air Policing Mission of the Baltic airspace,” said Berzins.

“Our country, in turn, firmly supports Turkey’s integration into the European Union. I am certain that the enlargement of the European Union offers the best response to the challenges that are created by globalization and the financial crisis,” added Berzins.

“Our excellent bilateral relations also involve intense economic partnerships. Trade turnover between our countries has quintupled over the past five years, and this shows mutual interest and profitability of our entrepreneurs and sustainable business contacts,” explained the Latvian president.

“Several major Turkish companies are already present in Latvia. “Gama Holding” is reconstructing the Riga second thermoelectric power station, while “Havas” provides land services at the Riga International Airport. I hope that other leading Turkish companies will follow their example and that small and medium entrepreneurs, too, will be increasingly interested in developing their projects in Latvia,” pointed out Berzins.

“Political dialogue and economic statistics, however, are not the only indicators of our relationship. The people of our countries are drawing closer together in a variety of areas. This is seen in an increasing number of exchange students and in intensified cooperation among our universities. Turkey’s hospitality, millennia of cultural heritage and lovely environment have attracted tourists from Latvia for many years,” emphasized the Latvian president.

April 8, 2013