"Twelve Years After: The EU-Turkish Customs Union Revisited
Mustafa Kutlay
Monday , 04 February 2008
The history of Turkish-EU relations has had a quite long past going back to Ankara Agreement, which was signed in 1963. Having looked at the historical period, making a turbulent progress, Turkish-EU relations has started to gain acceleration after the second half of the 1980s, and evolved into a very different dimension with the sign of Customs Union. As known, Turkey established a Customs Union (CU) with the European Union as of January 1, 2006. In this framework, Turkey and EU have removed all barriers in front of trade excluding service and agriculture areas."
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