Should Turkey join EU?

Answer 1

No and there are few reasons for this
They not really Europeans Turkey
They have bad human rights records
They showed there true colour when the Pope vist Turkey
They burned down a few EU office during the Danish cartoon protest in Turkey.
The Germans are oppose to Turkey joining the EU. They have over three millions Turks living there.
Turkey is closer to the middle east than Europe.

Answer 2

I do not believe it is either in the interest of Europe or of Turkey for that country to join the EU.
While their political structure and their constitution are secular, it is none the less true that their culture and their beliefs are deeply held and are Islamic. Until such time as we are certain in Europe that their will be no "Islamic" agenda in their joining then they should not be offered more than a preferred partnership. They have already made it plain that they will not recognise Cyprus, a full member of the union, nor even allow Cypriot ships to enter Turkish ports when it was Turkey that invaded the island! How can we accept such a country as a full member?

Answer 3

i do no longer think of Turkey would be transforming into to be a member of. i won't be able to communicate as an authority as i'm an american, yet with the aid of my coming to Germany, i've got discovered lots approximately how the european purposes. at the start, significant coverage themes alongside with getting access to a clean member require unanimous consent. Austria, is strongly against. Nicholas Sarkozy (i like this guy) of France is strongly against, and Angela Merkel of Germany is against (and he or she would have a good majority next election). Turkey won't get in and rightfully so. The theory is absurd. Turkey isn't in Europe (ok 3%), and shares no easy cultural values with Europeans. If Turkey gets in, the place is the Canadian invite? they're commonwealth. the comparable unfastened good judgment for admitting Turkey could bring about a boarderless eu. hi fairly quickly we are able to all be Europeans. YEAH! i wish all and sundry picked up on my sarcasm, via fact i became laying it on genuine thick. :-)

Answer 4

Turkey is basically an Islamic state and it might have conflicts with other countries in the EU. Just the same reason that Russia as a communist country cannot join the EU because of conflicting systems.

Answer 5

nobody should join the EU. it`s a big rip off the EU says we should not pay tax again on cigarettes when you get them from abroad but the prime minister says up yours we will charge tax again. who is the boss EU. or Blair they do just what they want and we have no say at all. years ago the EU say`s we all have to change all the exit boxes`s above all exits we did at a cost of millions. did other country's in the EU do IT NO.

Answer 6

And why not? Turkey has been and is a European country, since Mehmet II. took over the dying, corrupted Byzantine Empire. Please go and read some 'true' history, not heresy.
I see from some responses below that some Europeans (I assumed they are) are either ignorant of the truth or extremely prejudiced, ethnocentric, and religiously biased.
1- All those Balkan states, and the Middle-East countries lived under Ottoman Empire with no trouble whatsoever. Ethnic problems started in those countries in the 19th Centur, when the Ottoman Empire grew weak and some European countries began to fiddle with her internal affairs.
2- The current bad situation in the Balkans is a result of Soviet influence and corrupted leaders, not because of Turks.
3- Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in complete freedom and friendhsip under Turkish rule, especially in Palestine. It was the British who created the Israeli state and started all the bloodshed.
4- Turkey is a secular state although majority of its population is Muslim. By opposing Turkey's EU membership on the grounds of religion just shows that you do not understand the philosophy behind EU, and that you yourselves are religious fundamentalists.
5- Republic of Cyprus was founded on 16 August, 1960 with the partnership of Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Turkey, Greece and UK are guarantor powers by agreement. Turkish Cypriots were ousted of the government in December 1963. After 11 years of ethnic clashes on the island, a coup, backed by the Greek Junta in July 74 tried to change the constitution and the state of Cyprus by joining it to Greece. Turkey, after applying UK for joint action, used her guarantor obligation and intervened to save Turkish Cypriots from ethnic cleansing (go check mass graves).
6- Three years ago a UN peace plan (Annan plan) was put to referenda in two parts of the island to reunite. Turkish Cypriots supported the plan with a 65% yes vote. Greek Cypriots rejected it with 75%.
Still, they were admitted into EU and Turkish Cypriots left out. Turkey supported the UN plan.
7- Turkey signed the Ankara and Rome treaties back in 1960 to join the EU (the then Common Market).
8- Turkey will become an EU member when her economy and democratic system is further developed and meets the EU criteria.
9- Ask yourself in what ways some of the new member states (like Bulgaria, Romania and the new candidates Serbia, Croatia etc.) are better than Turkey.
10- Finally, EU is based on human values, not on Christianity.

Answer 7

of course not. it must be a whole all by itself - Turkey has the capacity to become a strong county, only if EU and America stop interfere with its internal and external relations..

Answer 8

No. They're not really in the zone to be part of Europe and don't have the finances to contribute equally. I know France doesn't want them in because they're too strong of a Muslim country (too great of a population and they'd lose their status as the second biggest country since Turkey is so much bigger).

I know Cyprus is part of the EU but since they're part of Greece (and I know Cypriots have different laws but they are considered a part of Greece),

Answer 9

Turkey NEVER in the EU. NEVER
THey are non- Europeans following the will of allah, a will incompatible with European culture

Answer 10

NO! Turkey is in Asia, which starts at the Dardanelles, however as the prats who run Brussels have no idea of geography and are only trying to increase the size of the dictatorship then we will count for nothing in this debate.