The Process of Amendment of Turkish Constitution and its Impact on Turkey’s Joining European Union
Subject Areas :
Masoud Ghafari
1
(
استادیار و عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم سیاسی دانشگاه تربیت مدرس
)
Noralddin Akbari
2
(
کارشناس ارشد علوم سیاسی دانشگاه تربیت مدرس
)
Keywords: Turkey, Justice and Development Party, European Union, amendment of Turkish constitution, Turkey’s relations with European Union,
Abstract :
In recent decade Turkey has made tremendous efforts to become a part of European countries. The official application of Turkey for joining European community was presented on 24 April 1978. The process of negotiation for joining the community started on 13 October2005 by signing a thirty five chapter document, a process which conditioned to ten years period time and in that the European Union laid the conditions, criteria and standards for joining of Turkey. The Turkish government in the direction of European demands put on the agenda vast reforms in the field of politics, economy, culture, judiciary and conferring concessions to ethnic and religious minorities. The present article by relying on documents data and by a descriptive-analytical method, believes that taking into consideration ideological approach of Europe about Turkey’s joining European Union, the present reforms do not have much impact on Turkey’s position in joining European Union and it seems that basically West, due to cultural and civilizational reasons does not have a tendency to accept Turkey into European Union.
