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See my other reply about Turkey being "set to join" the EU. Turkey has never been "set to join" the EU. They'd like to join, sure. There are significant crite
by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
See my other reply about Turkey being "set to join" the EU.
Turkey has never been "set to join" the EU. They'd like to join, sure.
There are significant criteria they would need to fill to join, and everyone knows they won't do it any time soon; they were going backwards on some at the time of the campaign and are arguably further back eight years on.
If Turkey met all the criteria they'd be a perfectly viable member of the EU. But then if I had the physiology, brains, feathers, gait and quack of a duck, I'd be a duck.
- logifail 3y ago> There are significant criteria they would need to fill to join, and everyone knows they won't do it any time soon; they were going backwards on some at the time of the campaign and are arguably further back eight years on. https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy_en https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-p... "On 13 December 1999 the Helsinki European Council adopted the Commission proposal to grant Turkey the status of an applicant for EU membership." Coming up on 24 years ... and counting. Great job, everyone involved.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoIt actually goes back further than that -- they wanted to join the EEC in '87. 36 years. This is actually higher than the median age of Turkey's population.