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On 4 November 2009, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, during a visit to Turkey underlined the UK government's support for Turkey's bid to join the European Union, saying: "I am very clear that Turkish accession to the EU is important and will be of huge benefit to both Turkey and the EU."
In July 2023, Erdoğan brought up Turkey's accession to EU membership up in the context of Sweden's application for NATO membership. [83] 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. [84]
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]
EU entry for Turkey, a country of 85 million people, is currently not part of the political debate. It applied for EU membership in April 1987 and become a candidate country in December 1999 ...
Ankara also received assurances from Sweden that it would help revive Turkey’s own quest to join the European Union. Under the deal, NATO as an organization agreed to address Turkey's concerns ...
The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political conditions called the Copenhagen criteria (named after the Copenhagen summit in June 1993), which require a stable democratic government that ...
Turkey has taken no concrete steps towards meeting its stated desire to join the BRICS group of emerging economies but "a process is underway", the spokesperson for the country's ruling party said ...
Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Membership is obligatory for joining the European Union . As of 2023 [update] Turkey has nearly a third of the cases pending at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).