Integrating Turkey into the European Union: pros and cons

Abstract

The major objective of this essay is to assess the feasibility of Turkish membership in the European community. For a better understanding, the paper firstly will stress on a brief background of Turkey-EU relationship. A special emphasis will be put on the main obstacles, such as religious-cultural heritage and Kurdish problem that still keep Turkey beyond the European family. The study is also going to determine whether the issue of Armenian genocide denial may become an additional obstacle to the desired membership in the EU for Turkey. Finally such issues as Turkish qualifications for membership, its geographic location and the nature of its government, which will have particular importance for the EU membership, are to be studied as well.