In 2005, Turkey formally fulfilled the European Union’s “Copenhagen Criteria” to achieve official candidate status. However, the EU has not negotiated with Ankara in good faith, and Turkey’s membership prospects are badly stalled.
Unfortunately, the EU’s contrived negotiating position has provided the AKP with an opportunity to pursue an agenda that better reflects its leaders’ foreign policy and ideological preferences and allows Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to use the failing accession process as cover for Ankara’s deepening partnerships with regional actors that are hostile to the West.
For more: EU Prevarication Advances the AKP’s Agenda in Turkey | The Heritage Foundation
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