Трудният път за присъединяването на Турция към Европeйския съюз
The Difficult Road to Turkey’s Accession to the European Union

Author(s): Petya Vasileva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Inter-Ethnic Relations, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, EU-Legislation, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: Turkey; membership; refugee crisis; European Union; Muslim nation
Summary/Abstract: Turkey’s path to membership in the European Union (EU) is full of many obstacles. The history of relations between Turkey and the EU is long and full of twists and turns. The subject of Turkey’s membership also triggers mechanisms of public debate that have been formed in the course of the countries’ past experiences. Over the centuries, Europeans formed an identity in which the Ottoman Empire, in the face of the Turks, was opposed to a different people. Hence the psychological barrier for an 80 million Muslim nation with an authoritarian presidential rule and a much lower standard of living with increasing hyperinflation. That is why the accession of Turkey to the EU will shake the European integration and in particular its Christian basis. At the end of October 2023, an interim report on the progress of Turkey’s negotiations towards joining the European Union is expected to be published.

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