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@Kaptaan

Sorry for my late response. I wasn't at home for a couple of days.

From time to time you will witness articles in the Western media quoting prestigious institutions and their analyses on the public opinion in Turkey. You will read almost always that the overwhelming majority of Turks are supporting the Turkish EU membership ambitions suggesting that Turks unlike their government show a staunch pro-EU stance. This is not true. The average Turkish citizen would never accept to give up a big share of our national sovereignty rights which is a formal requirement to become a full EU member state. People in Turkey are usually pro EU not because they believe in same sex marriage or the right to die. It is much more simple.

When people in Turkey look at the EU, what do they see in the first place? They face nations like Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Poland & Hungary primarily. Their first and most important impression of the EU is made by these post-socialist second world countries. They see the amount of money they receive unfairly every year from Western Europe. In addition to that, they also see the reality of Eastern Europe. They know how underdeveloped and anti-Brussels those countries and societies are, yet, they still get billions from Western Europe.

Many people in Turkey are honestly convinced that we could do much, much better than Eastern Euros if we get the same amount of support they are getting each and every year from the West. But what my compatriots don't realize is the fact that Eastern Europeans gave up their independence almost entirely.

Take the most pro-European Turk and explain him in 5 min. which kind of rights we have to assign to Brussels in order to become an EU member and you'll witness immediately a change of mind.

When it comes to Europe and Turkey, people must learn to sharply distinguish between the cash value and the normative value of Europe. Even the biggest Kemalist accepts that Europe experienced by Atatürk is dead.
 
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@Kaptaan

This is an older video about Turkey's EU accession. It is a short commentary from Prof. Beril Dedeoğlu addressing a different model of EU membership for Turkey.

http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/28/the-eu-enlargement-and-turkey

"That is to say that Turkey becomes a member only for those community benefits which she accepts."

Ironically, this is what UK is demanding from the Europeans for herself after the Brexit...
 
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@Kaptaan

This is an older video about Turkey's EU accession. It is a short commentary from Prof. Beril Dedeoğlu addressing a different model of EU membership for Turkey.

http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/28/the-eu-enlargement-and-turkey

"That is to say that Turkey becomes a member only for those community benefits which she accepts."

Ironically, this is what UK is demanding from the Europeans for herself after the Brexit...
Mate I will watch it tomorrow. I am just finishing a abstract that I prepared for University of Leeds. And heading to bed.
 
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Breaking news just coming Turkey to hold early parliament and president election.

Source : TRT WORLD

@neptun @Babur Han
 
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Turkey has brought forward presidential and parliamentary elections that could pave the way for a single-party state with few checks on the power of the president, to 24 June, a year and a half ahead of schedule.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced the new date after meeting Devlet Bahçeli, his ally and head of the nationalist bloc in parliament, who had called on Tuesday for early elections.

“We have decided that elections should be held on 24 June 2018,” Erdoğan said at the presidential palace. “Our preference has been to try to hold out till the date in November 2019. However, whether it be the cross-border operation in Syria, or the historic developments in Iraq and Syria have made it so that it is paramount for Turkey to overcome uncertainty.”

The winner will assume the presidency of the Turkish republic with broad new powers that were approved after a constitutional referendum last year. The elections are likely to take place under a state of emergency that has been in place since a coup attempt in July 2016.

Before Wednesday Erdoğan had repeatedly pledged to hold the elections in 2019 as originally planned, but fears of an economic downturn had recently rekindled speculation that he might change his mind.

Bahçeli’s proposal and its quick acceptance by the president was a stunning turnaround that will leave just two months before elections that will transform the political scene in Turkey, sealing its evolution from a parliamentary democracy into an executive presidency with sweeping powers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/18/turkey-to-hold-snap-elections-on-24-june-says-erdogan
 
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So they will make elections right before the economy completely collapses and opposition starts gaining power so that Erdo can safely win another term.

With all institutions in his hands and power to manipulate the results as much as he wants nobody should expect free and democratic elections in Turkey anytime soon. That guy will never leave power without blood spilling...
 
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The good party (iyi parti) is allowed to participate in this election?
 
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