Turkey and EU 1959 TO 1987

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Turkey and EU 1959 TO 1987
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• Sept. 1959 Ankara applies for associate
  membership of the European Economic Community
• Sept. 1963 Ankara Agreement (an association
  agreement) signed to take Turkey into a customs
  union and finally full EEC membership. First
  financial protocol also signed.
• Nov. 1970 Additional Protocol and second
  financial protocol signed in Brussels.
• Jan. 1973 Additional Protocol enters into
  force, comprehensively setting out how the
  customs union would be established.
• June 1980 Association Council decides to
  decrease customs duties on almost all
  agricultural products to "zero" by 1987
• 14 April 1987 Turkey applies for full EEC
  membership.

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SEPT 1959

• The Turkish membership process to the European
  Union has been going on ever since Turkey applied
  to the EU in 1959.
• The EECS response to this first application was
  to propose the creation of an association between
  the EEC and Turkey.
• The association was pursuing an import
  substitution development strategy based on
  protectionism and state-led industrialization.
• Most of the elites in Turkey believed that
  opening the economy to European competition would
  ruin nascent Turkish industries and turn Turkey
  into a colony of Europe.
• Ankara applied for associate membership in the
  EEC mainly out of the fear that Greece, which had
  applied a year earlier, would gain an advantage
  in its relations with Europe.

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Sept. 1963 Ankara Agreement and Turkey

• The Ankara Agreement was signed on September 12,
  1963 at Ankara.
• The Agreement has three step process toward
  creating a Customs Union which would help secure
  Turkey's full membership in the EEC.
• Ankara agreement, the aim of which full
  membership of Turkey does not limit Turkey-EU
  relations with free movement of goods but also
  aims to provide free movement of labor ,services
  and capital in order to integrate European Single
  Market.

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• The Agreement has three stages which are
• 1)Preparatory stage
• During this stage, which was to be from 1964 to
  1973, the EEC would give some direct financial
  aid to Turkey and establish preferential trade
  conditions with Turkey.
• 2)Transitional stage
• This stage was to cover twenty two years where
  the Community and Turkey would eliminate all
  tariffs and trade barriers in order to establish
  a customs union between Turkey and the Community.
• 3)Final stage
• Should the necessary progress be observed, the
  Community would examine the possibility of
  Turkeys accession to the Community as a full
  member.
• By the end of transitional stage,
  completion of the Custom Union was aimed.

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• The agrement included that
• Establish ever closer bonds between the Turkish
  people and the peoples brought together in the
  European Economic Community
• Ensure a continuous improvement in living
  conditions in Turkey and in the European Economic
  Community through accelerated economic progress
  and the harmonious expansion of trade, and to
  reduce the disparity between the Turkish economy
  and the economies of the Member States of the
  Community
• The support given by the EEC to the efforts of
  the Turkish people to improve their standard of
  living will facilitate the accession of Turkey to
  the Community at a later date
• Preserve and strengthen peace and liberty by
  joint pursuit of the ideals underlying the Treaty
  establishing the European Economic Community

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Nov. 1970 - Jan. 1973

• When the property stage that Turkey aid for the
  Community to strengthen its economy and the
  stage between Turkey and Community was grown up
  the Customs Union ended the transitional stage
  has stated by the Additional protocol that was
  signed in 13 November 1970 and Turkey started the
  negotiations with EEC.
• In 1973 The Additional protocol came in to
  force.The Additional protocol determined their
  provisions of the transitional stage and the
  obligations of both parties and aimed
  transitional completion of the Customs Union.
• Within the framework of the Ankara agreement and
  Additional protocol Turkey was given the right to
  utilize EUs financial cooperation and free
  movement of Turkish labor within the

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1980s

• During the first half of the 1980s
• Relations between Turkey and the EEC a virtual
  freeze following the military coup d'etat on 12
  September 1980.
• The first step on the path to full membership
  Turkey's relationship with the EEC was legally
  sanctioned in 1963 when it signed an Association
  Agreement with the EU.
• Since then, Turkish hopes have been put on hold,
  particularly following
• Its ivasion ofCyprus in 1974 and
• the military coup detat of 1980.
• In June 1980 Association council decides to
  decrease customs duties on almost all
  agricultural products to "zero" by 1987.

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• We can saw a temporary stop in relations as a
  result of the 1980 Turkish military coup.
• Turkeys real interest in European integration
  began in the 1980s, following the shift to
  liberalization and economic openness in 1980 and
  in the wake of the terrible experiences of the
  highly suppressive military regime between 1980
  and 1983.
• Integration with Europe promised economic
  prosperity and democratic consolidation.
• Ankara applied for membership in the EC in 1987.