Turkey, Occupy Gezi, and the European Union
about 5 hours ago - Saturday, 15 June 2013, 09:08 , by David Casa
Turkey’s journey towards EU membership has been long, and showed few signs of reaching its termination even prior to the Occupy Gezi movement and the Turkish government’s reaction. Turkey is still far from satisfying many EU membership criteria and ensuring the unanimous support of current EU members. Recent events certainly do not make Turkey look ready for EU membership. However, it would be wrong to deny the genuine progress Turkey has made in many respects, or to treat the heavy-handed response to Occupy Gezi as the death knell of Turkish EU membership. Depending on how events develop, Occupy Gezi is just as likely to accelerate Turkish progress as end it.
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