On the road to Turkey's EU membership: Analyzing the Dilemma of eu accession

Turkey is one of the countries that have sought to join the EU from the past to the present. However, efforts to join the EU are still unsuccessful due to various dilemmas and limitations of Turkey, in terms of the political, social, economic and cultural identities of Turkey itself. Consequently, there are many reasons against Turkey's inclusion in the EU. The aims of this work are; 1) to analyze the causes of problems why Turkey has not been accepted by member nations, and 2) to develop new knowledge and new contextual variations that are still a problem for Turkey to join the EU. This research emphases on several secondary and primary resources and include both qualitative and quantitative methods. The results of this work found that Turkey's problems in joining the EU ranging from above all its dilemma identity in the religious and cultural dimension of Turkey, the current political problems and economic difficulties. This will likely affect the EU member countries in the future. Based on the findings of this investigation, it was concluded that the EU may benefit if it accepts Turkey's EU membership on social, strong economic, political and security matters.