Turkey’s European aspirations in the last decade. A real desire to become full EU member or a model example of reality of politics?

• Authors: Piotr Mszyca

Abstracts

EN

The examples mentioned above show, that Turkey on its way to become full member of European Union does not make a clean breast of it. Officially Turkey wants to become a part of EU but unofficially the negotiation process by itself, gave Turkey many positives. So if we look at the obstacles that hamper Turkish accession, and some of them are almost impossible to overcome, we can reach a conclusion that only by the negotiations Turkey profits greatly. Doing balance sheet of profits and looses, we can advance a thesis that Turkey wouldn’t gain much more than already has. So why would Turkey want to join European Union? Isn’t that only an idée fixe for Ankara for over half a decade? It seems that for today, the negotiations with Brussels is kind of double-dealing. Nobody knows how would it affect Turkey, if broke of the negotiations or Ankara became a full EU’s member. So, for now, Ankara prefers to keep status quo with European Union, as long as it benefits. All the cases given above give evidence then, that Turkey performs politics according to the old iron rule of reality of politics in contacts with EU and it is not that obvious that Turkey really wants to totally join European family.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 127-143

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Piotr Mszyca

• Uniwersytet Szczeciński

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201209

Biblioteka Nauki

2041599