Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin claimed Armenia could face a crisis similar to Ukraine due to its European integration aims, whilst threatening to flatten any country attacking Kaliningrad.
Maybe rule of law and democracy has something to do with it? Erdogan just jailed another opposition leader, what about Turkey do something about it before complaining why they can’t join EU? What about stop occupying Cyprus?
I agree that current day Turkey is flawed and that Erdogan is leading Turkey down a bad path. But Turkey officially registered as a full EU candidate 15 years prior to his presidency.
They’re still a candidate as far as I remember, but talks are frozen because Turkey didn’t went through reforms it needed to become a member, that applies to many countries mostly balkans are stuck in negotiations for decades because they just don’t want to reform. They’d like all benefits of EU without actually fulfilling any commitments, that’s not what EU is about
That sounds like baseless claim, there’s about 3mil Turkish people / Turkish descent born in Germany and about 7mil Turkish immigrants living in EU, nobody is afraid of them. What people are afraid of is Turkish politics that are far from being ready to join EU, they’ve shown over and over again they don’t care about democracy or law, they want to join to suck up money and save their failing economy
It doesn’t help when Turkey itself has a problem with racism and does a lot of authoritarian stuff that goes against the secular republic as it was envisaged by Atatürk. And of course by EU Standards the country isn’t ready to join the EU and I think it will take a lot of reconstruction after the abolishment of “Erdoganism”
Here is an example coming from Britain with what I mean.
Maybe rule of law and democracy has something to do with it? Erdogan just jailed another opposition leader, what about Turkey do something about it before complaining why they can’t join EU? What about stop occupying Cyprus?
I agree that current day Turkey is flawed and that Erdogan is leading Turkey down a bad path. But Turkey officially registered as a full EU candidate 15 years prior to his presidency.
They’re still a candidate as far as I remember, but talks are frozen because Turkey didn’t went through reforms it needed to become a member, that applies to many countries mostly balkans are stuck in negotiations for decades because they just don’t want to reform. They’d like all benefits of EU without actually fulfilling any commitments, that’s not what EU is about
It’s not just that, there were also a lot of racist undertones coming from Germany.
I followed that a lot back in the day and it was mostly Germany being afraid of Turkish people getting into the EU.
That sounds like baseless claim, there’s about 3mil Turkish people / Turkish descent born in Germany and about 7mil Turkish immigrants living in EU, nobody is afraid of them. What people are afraid of is Turkish politics that are far from being ready to join EU, they’ve shown over and over again they don’t care about democracy or law, they want to join to suck up money and save their failing economy
As I said it was one of the factors.
It doesn’t help when Turkey itself has a problem with racism and does a lot of authoritarian stuff that goes against the secular republic as it was envisaged by Atatürk. And of course by EU Standards the country isn’t ready to join the EU and I think it will take a lot of reconstruction after the abolishment of “Erdoganism”
Here is an example coming from Britain with what I mean.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/unfounded-claim-turkey-swing-brexit-referendum/
This was the same feeling in Germany back then. And the Turkish minority in Germany is confronted with enough racism on a daily basis.
Here is a more notorious example from Germany.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/15/neo-nazi-murders-revealing-germanys-darkest-secrets