Tari Candidate la Aderare-Turcia

TitanGirl · Moderator

Si Turcia ar vrea sa intre in UE...majoritatea tarilor membre se opun si sunt discutii aprinse pe tema asta...
Ultimele stiri din EU Observer:

EU to highlight Turkish torture issue
01.11.2005 - 09:49 CET | By Andrew Rettman Turkey must stop torture, allow freedom of worship and limit the powers of the military in the next two years if it is to join the EU by 2015, according to a draft European Commission proposal seen by the Financial Times.

The paper on "principles, priorities and conditions" of Turkish EU membership contains 150 short-term targets for Ankara and will be finalised later this month.

The draft says Ankara must have "zero tolerance" against torture, must "adopt a law comprehensively addressing all the difficulties faced by non-Muslim religious minorities and communities ...establish full parliamentary oversight of military and defence policy" and "ensure the independence of the judiciary".

The new document will be used to guide negotiations once they get fully under way in late 2006 or in 2007.

The EU has already begun screening Turkish legislation for compliance with European law in the field of science, culture and education after agreeing to start accession talks on 3 October.

The negotiating mandate is one of the toughest ever imposed on a candidate country, giving member states wide scope to use national vetos in closing any of the 35 chapters of the membership process.

The mandate also states the EU can suspend talks if it finds "a serious and persistent breach...of the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law".

Cultural revolution
The issue of European values is set to come to the fore in the accession process due to its strong impact on public opinion in both Europe and Turkey.

Earlier this month, French president Jacques Chirac caused a stir by saying the country will have to undergo a "major cultural revolution" in order to join the EU.

Reports indicate that public support for EU membership is waning in Turkey itself, while a Eurobarometer study in September showed that just 35 percent of Europeans back Turkish accession and 84 percent believe Turkey must "respect systematically human rights" to move ahead.

Turkey adopted a new penal code abolishing the death penalty in June this year and has been a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights since 1954.

But international human rights organisations continue to ask painful questions about the country's European credentials.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg upheld a ruling in May that the Kurdish minority leader Abdullah Ocalan was denied a free trial.

Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders are also worried about article 301 of the new penal code, which forbids insults against the "symbols of the state's sovereignty and the honour of its organs" and could be used to gag the press.

The trial in December of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk over his open discussion of Turkey's Kurdish and Armenian massacres last century will thrust the European values debate into the spotlight as well.

Stiinta · Site Admin

Realitatea este ca pe turci armata i-a scos dintr-o situatie ce parea fara iesire acum mai bine de doua decenii...probabil s-au obisnuit ins tilul asta si vor sa tina totul sub control, lucru greu de inghitit de UE...