Is Turkey Becoming Authoritarian Enough To Work Outside EU Relations?
Growing concern over Turkish atrocities is a matter of concern for EU nations
Turkey is becoming the new
arena of human rights violation. Reporting through an independent online
feed, Deger Akal substantiates, “Threats, assault, or even armed attack at journalists
in Turkey is
becoming common practice. The frequency of such incidents is increasing. One
of the most recent cases occurred at the end of August in the western Turkish
city of Balikesir. Levent Uysal, editor of the news site Yenigun, had just
left his house when two men wearing helmets opened fire on him from a
motorbike: they fired six shots before speeding off. Apparently they had been
waiting for him but he survived.” Such instances are becoming common
threatening freedom of expression.
Turkey has been troubling the Kurdish population as well. Recently,
the largest opposition party in Turkey went on roads, shouting against the
dismissal of almost 24 governors from the Turkish Parliament. They are now
planning to extract various MPs from the government.
In a recent European Parliamentary discussion, representatives
from EU contemplated on ways Turkey could be prevented from diverging from
the values for which the European Union stands.
Speaking on the occasion, Kim Friedberg, Director, Council for the
European Union, said, “Turkey seems to be moving towards an authoritarian mode. The country is sadly drifting away from
important EU values such as freedom of the press, judicial practice.”
Further, Can Dundar, an awarded and celebrated journalist speaking
on the situation in Turkey said, “While we had become a part of the EU, we
have never been given the kind of support we should have received as a nation.
Everything is under the rule of the thumb of the government. There is no
freedom of expression and human rights are at its all time low. Who is going
to save the common man?”
The general consensus is that European Union is to be somewhere
blamed for the severing of a dialogue route with Turkey. “If today, Turkey is
confrontational, it is because we didn’t give it the kind of support it had
needed to function as a part of the EU. They have never been fully accepted
by the EU nations and that’s a fact,” added, Amanda Paul: Senior Policy
Analyst, European Policy Centre.
Under the leadership of Erdogan, Turkey has not seen any development
of Foreign Trade. No wonder, today, EU nations don’t want to invest in
Turkey. While Turkey remains to be the ideal market to sell their products,
no one wants to address serious issues like migration of millions of Syrians
and Afghans that are crippling its own economy. Erdogan, on his part, seems
only interested in shifting focus to other nations outside the EU for support.
Russia is one of them, and US has not been able to prevent this friendship
for favours to flourish.
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