"Contributions of Full Membership of Turkey in the Context of Transformations in EU Development Process
Sefer SENER and Ali AKDEMIR
ABSTRACT
Within historical progress, it is possible to date Turkey’s cooperation with Europe to the political reforms made in the Ottoman Empire in 1839. Turks started to stand next to Europe and share European values with the reforms they made in 1839. This understanding, which started during the Ottoman Empire years, has continued in the Turkish Republic’s Term. In order to stand next to developing and strengthening Europe, Turkey established the first legal grounds in 1963 by “Ankara Treaty”. The decision to start full membership negotiations between Turkey and Europe on October 3rd, 2005 was taken in Brussels Summit on 17th December, 2006. Thus Turkey has left behind another significant milestone during its journey of 41 years in the Turkish Republic’s Term and 165 years since Ottoman Empire’s Term. Having done many reforms in economic, politic, legal, human rights and freedom areas, a challenging long negotiation period is expecting Turkey. Either for the completion of Copenhagen Political Criteria or Maastricht Economic Criteria it seems an obligation to establish a high level management approach among non-governmental organizations, citizens and State. "
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