How Europe lost Turkey

Harun Reşit Aydin
7 min readJun 22, 2020
source: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/opinion-eu-should-improve-relations-with-turkey-for-its-own-future/1724197

Relations between Turkey and the EU, i.e. the West in general, have deteriorated considerably in the last 10 years. And it was written and commented on very often in the western press, thousands of TV debates were made about how Turkey is moving away from the West, has become less democratic and no longer fits the values of the European Union (whatever those values are and how seriously they were actually taken or how seriously the Europeans actually thought about the well-being of the Turkish people when they had the opportunity to improve their lives). Therefore I will press a a bit on the wounds of this big European lie and let it hurt, tell the truth like a German directly into their face, because if it does not suit them, they are no longer so direct and like to believe pink lies.

To make it easy for every layperson, I will explain it in a storyline of a primary school level, because maybe then even the last illiterate can understand it:

I’m a student with the name of “Turkey” in a class who aims to graduate from the school called as “European Union” and getting their member diploma.

Since the 1963, I was waiting on the door to join this school and finally after 36 years waiting on the front of the door, in 1999, they have agreed that I can join the class. It was an interesting incident, because to that time I was neither democratic, nor stable and…

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Harun Reşit Aydin

Ex Nato-Officer. Economist. Advertisement Professional. Brand Consulting. Politic and Strategy Analyst. 83 countries visited. Turkey-India Expert. Storyteller.