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B. Research Question:
The progress of Turkey in economy and politics do not stop this country from seeking the EU membership, besides, Turkey is one of the influential
countries in the world due to its strategic position in geographical and geopolitical aspect and they have already got security needs by join a NATO member. Then
here appear a big question: Why does Turkey under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan keep seeking the membership of European Union after the postponement
of EU for several years particularly in 2010-2013??
C. Research Propose and Objectives:
The purposes of this research are:
To know how far is the Turkish progress in economy and political aspect To know how far is the Turkish progress in democracy and human right
To know Turkeys motive to become EU member amid its politic and economic stability under Prime Minister Erdogan while EU is in crisis
particularly in 2010-2013 To know how far is the Turkish effort to become EU member.
The objectives of this research are:
To know the applicability of Foreign Policy concept of IR in this case To Know the applicability of National Interest concept of IR in this case
To give a contribution for the research of International Relation studies
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D. Literature Review:
The issue of Turkey and its relationship with the European Union is indeed very interesting to be discussed. Many authors have studied this problem with
different substances which has been written in their articles, journals, thesis and also books. Among them is Ziya Onis with an article of Turkey, Europe, and
Paradoxes of Identity . This article discusses the stagnation of the acceptance of
Turkey as a full member of the European Union, while the countries of the former communist colonies in Central and Eastern Europe would be accepted. This is
surprising because Turkey has long expressed his proposal, while those other states have recently experienced democratization. The authors conclude that all
these countries have a lot of similarity with EU member states. Therefore, the smooth fate of Eastern European countries was missed by Turkey because his
majority of population is Muslim. This is unfortunate, because the deepening of democracy in Turkey requires the integration of the country into the European
Union.
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Besides that, there‟s also an article from Vincent Morelli of European Union Enlargement: A Status Report on Turkey‟s Accession Negotiations. This
article talks about the agenda, particularly along 2012, and the report of process of negotiations that have been held by European Union and Turkey toward full
membership in the Union. The negotiation process also deal with the problem between Turkey and Cyprus an also about
the “Positive Agenda” that was described by the Commission as intended to bring fresh dynamics into EU-Turkey
relations. In addition, this report also talks about the response of Members of
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Ziya Onis, Turkey, “Europe, and Paradoxes of Identity”, Mediterranean Quarterly 10.3 1999 p: 107-136
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Congress toward the membership of Turkey in the current day. Some of them have expressed support for Turkey‟s membership in the EU, but some of them
seem to have diminished their interest of it recently.
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On the other side, Fithri Asmawita from the International Relation student University of Gajah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia in her Master Thesis of
“Turkish Diplomacy to become Full Member of European Union” talks about Turkey‟s diplomatic proses to be the member of EU that took long time. It talks
about Turkish history in applying the proposal of the membership of EU in 1987 and begun its negotiation in 2005. There are about 35 chapters of the rules which
should be negotiated by Turkey. The main idea contained in this thesis was about Turkish Foreign Policy, its negotiation process and also its propaganda. Then this
thesis focuses on how the diplomatic process taken by Turkey as Turkey‟s process to become the member of EU has taken a long time than the other candidate that
have been a part of EU.
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And the other thesis come from Onur Yalcinkaya from the Faculty of Economy University of Hannover Leibiniz, Turkey, in his Master Thesis of
“Analysis Of The Turkish Financial Market With Focus On EU Membership” talks about Turkey‟s economy that has developed during its time in pursuing the
full membership of EU in contradiction to the Global and European financial markets. This paper is prepared to examine and analyses the importance of Turkey
for the EU due to in particular economic reasons. The history of the EU and Turkey relations, the legal, political, social, cultural, and especially economic
issues for the full membership of Turkey in the EU in order to show the
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Vincent Morelli, “European Union Enlargement: A Status Report on Turkey‟s Accession Negotiations”, Congssional Report Service
, 2013
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Fithri Asmawita, 2009. “Diplomasi Turki untuk Bergabung dengan Uni Eropa”, Thesis of Master for International Relation Study,
University of Gajah Mada, 70 p.11
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economic –political structure and the integration ability of Turkey with the EU are
discussed in this thesis. The last part of this research evaluates Turkey‟s possible accession to the EU given recent developments in Turkey‟s economy and
financial sector.
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Both of journals and also the first thesis discuss more on the process of acceptance of Turkeys membership in the European Union while the last thesis
tend to discuss more on Turkeys condition in social, politic and economy aspect that tend to be more stable compared with EU itself, while this research will be
more discussing and analyzing of why Turkey is still pursuing this membership amid of the economic crisis in the European Union, whereas the economic and
security situation in the country Turkey itself are stable, in addition this country has the big influence in relations between the Western Countries and the Middle
East. Then in this research the author will identify the reason of Turkey in its insisting on pursuing permanent membership of the EU while Turkey is now
growing up to be quite calculated country in the world with economy and politics stability.
E. Theoretical Framework:
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