Turkey has been candidate for EU membership since 1999. Accession negotiations started in 2005.

As a major emerging economy and a member of NATO and G20, Turkey is a key partner for the European Union. It is recognised as an active regional foreign policy player, with a strategic location, including for the EU's energy security. The EU is therefore committed to intensify further the political dialogue with Turkey in particular on foreign policy issues of mutual interest.

EU - Turkey (2019-2020)

EP President Metsola made&nbsp;a statement at the opening of the February session, followed by a full debate on the emergency humanitarian aid the EU can provide to Türkiye and Syria after the catastrophic earthquake, which cost the lives of more than 30 000&nbsp;people and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.

Turkey has been candidate for EU membership since 1999. Accession negotiations started in 2005. In recent years the EU is often criticizing the backsliding of the country in certain areas. As a major emerging economy and a member of NATO and G20, Türkiye&nbsp;is recognised as an active regional foreign policy player, with a strategic location, including for the EU's energy security. Turkey is a key strategic partner of the EU on issues such as migration, security, counter-terrorism, and the economy, but according to the EU has been backsliding in the areas of democracy, rule of law and fundamental right.

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On 1 and 2 October, EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss foreign affairs, in particular relations with Turkey and the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The leaders are also expected to address relations with China, the situation in Belarus and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. The single market, industrial policy and digital transformation are also on the agenda

The summit, initially planned for 24 and 25 September, has been postponed as President Michel is in quarantine.

Special European Council, 1-2 October 2020

General view of the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp, in Turkey on 10th of February, 2016 during a visit by the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation of the European Parliament.

LIBE - Committee on civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs delegation to Turkey.  Visit to the Nizip refugee container shelter. Woman and baby at the infirmary.

LIBE - Committee on civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs delegation to Turkey.  Visit to the Nizip refugee container shelter in the presence of Ambassador Adnan KECICI

DG EXPO Roundtable on academic freedom in Turkey.

Lord PLUMB - EP President meets with Turkish Delegation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in May 1989

ARTHUIS, Jean (ALDE, FR); DENANOT, Jean-Paul (S&D, FR); FERNANDES, Jos? Manuel (EPP, PT); GEIER, Jens (S&D, DE); J??TTEENM?KI, Anneli (ALDE, FI); MARAGALL, Ernest (Greens/EFA, ES); OMARJEE, Younous (GUE/NGL, FR); R?BIG, Paul (EPP, AT); VAIDERE, Inese

Jean ARTHUIS, EU Chair of the Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament, visits the supermarket of the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp (supported by WFP), in Turkey on 10th February, 2016, during a visit by the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation.

Jean ARTHUIS, EU Chair of the Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament and the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation visit the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp, in Turkey on 10th February, 2016.

EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee

A hand of an immigrant at the detention center of Filakio a village near Orestiada,some 900km north from Athens, on 17 October, 2012.The centre is the first stop for many undocumented arrivals arrested as they cross from Turkey into Greece.

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General view of the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp, in Turkey on 10th of February, 2016 during a visit by the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation of the European Parliament.

General view of the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp, in Turkey on 10th of February, 2016 during a visit by the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation of the European Parliament.

LIBE - Committee on civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs delegation to Turkey. Visit to the Nizip refugee container shelter. Woman and baby at the infirmary.

LIBE - Committee on civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs delegation to Turkey. Visit to the Nizip refugee container shelter. Woman and baby at the infirmary.

LIBE - Committee on civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs delegation to Turkey. Visit to the Nizip refugee container shelter in the presence of Ambassador Adnan KECICI

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DG EXPO Roundtable on academic freedom in Turkey.

Lord PLUMB - EP President meets with Turkish Delegation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in May 1989

Jean ARTHUIS, EU Chair of the Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament, visits the supermarket of the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp (supported by WFP), in Turkey on 10th February, 2016, during a visit by the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation.

Jean ARTHUIS, EU Chair of the Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament and the BUDG - Committee on Budgets Delegation visit the Osmaniye Cevdetiye Camp, in Turkey on 10th February, 2016.

EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee

A hand of an immigrant at the detention center of Filakio a village near Orestiada,some 900km north from Athens, on 17 October, 2012.The centre is the first stop for many undocumented arrivals arrested as they cross from Turkey into Greece.

BOTAS, Natural gas dispatching centre

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