Helsinki European Summit :: European Union and Turkey

1. INTRODUCTIONIt is certain that being a member of the European mating (EU) is a very hot debate for Turkey since 1950s. According to rough journalists, Turkey-EU transaction remind you of a couple who live together without a legal marriage bond. Though, this solve has evolved for the past fifty years and do both interior and exterior relations of Turkey with the other states and criminality versa. Whether Turkeys own internal problems or to qualitative changes in European integration over time, her efforts at adaptation are importantly older than most of the other candidate countries. Turkey is ahead of the countries that are seen as our equals regarding the admission criteria. When the historical facts based on the agreements and acts are examined, the EU-Turkey relations could be divided into three parts such as planning, transition and final periods. Preparation period could be considered as the plaque of the first relations between European Economic Community by Ankar a Agreement and transition period is seen as the way to the blanket(a) membership of Turkey by being a member of the impost Union Joint. In this case, Helsinki Summit would be the heart of the ongoing process. Most of the thinkers and academicians assume that Helsinki Summit paved the way for Turkeys practiced membership to the EU. For this reason it would be the final period. Most of the comments and criteria were finalized and EU electric charge declared its most recent opinion on enlargement process and submitted its views on each country expecting to become a member at the Summit. In this context Helsinki Summit would be the main composition of the paper. While depicting the importance of the summit for Turkey, the Turkey-EU relations would also be explained briefly. Since this study has its own limitations, in spite of a vast core of source journals, speeches, official records and more- the case would be examined in a descriptive perspective and would follow the chronolog ical line of the case.2. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF TURKEY-EU transactionEuropean Union (EU) has been through a series of transformations from the date it was established. world-class Organization of European Economic Community (OEEC) has developed day by day and came to the point where it is today. The idea of EEC was to establish a sedate and integrated Europe after the Second World War. For this reason, the main composition of the ongoing organization has never been changed during the process of transformation.