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In March 2011, then-Finnish President Tarja Halonen pledged her country's full support for Turkey's European Union membership process. [211] On 3 July 2013, at an election rally of the Christian Democrat Party in Düsseldorf, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble stated that Turkey should not join the European Union as it is not part of ...
The European Commission's annual report on Turkey's long-stalled EU membership bid is "unjust and biased", the Turkish foreign ministry said. The report by the European Union's executive arm on ...
Tensions in 2019 between EU-member Greece and Turkey led to Brussels threatening sanctions against Ankara and cutting off some dialogue channels. Ties have improved since 2021, with high-level ...
Albeit not officially part of the European Union, Turkey is one of the EU's main partners and both are members of the European Union–Turkey Customs Union. Turkey borders two EU member states: Bulgaria and Greece. Turkey has been an applicant to accede to the EU since 1987, [1] [2] but since 2016 accession negotiations have stalled. [3]
Turkey applied to join the European Union in 1999, and accession talks began in 2005. Accession negotiations were frozen in 2018 because of “democratic backsliding,” according to the European ...
Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe. [1] [2] Membership is obligatory for joining the European Union. As of 2023 Turkey has nearly a third of the cases pending at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). [3]
In July, President Tayyip Erdogan called for a re-opening of Ankara's accession talks and said full membership r Turkey, EU to revive talks to modernise customs union, minister says Skip to main ...
In July 2023, Erdoğan brought up Turkey's accession to EU membership up in the context of Sweden's application for NATO membership. [77] However, in September 2023, he announced that the European Union was well into a rupture in its relations with Turkey and that they could part ways during Turkey's European Union membership process. [78]