EU Enlargement - Analysis about magazine and newspaper articles [5A]
Why Europe must say yes to Turkey
In the following work, I am going to analyze an article taken from The Economist about the possibility for the Turkey to enter in EU: Why Europe must say yes to Turkey. The journalist is in favour of admission: I understand this start from the title. He is enough objective because he analyzes the negative and the positive aspects. At the beginning he says the Turkey “it is very large, it is very poor, not all of its is in Europe and it is Muslim. In the past, it has suffered from plenty of failings, ranging from political and economical instability, to the interfering role of its army, to a record of human rights abuses. Turkey has 71million people and this is a sort of problem because it will overtake the Germany from a political aspect. The journalist explains that the question of the number does not to be a problem, because in Europe the number of members is small and from this point of view her admission in EU is an advantage for the Union. A problem, however ,is the poverty: in the article he says Turkey’s GDP per head is only 29% of the EU25 average, way below al existing members and it wants foreign investment. Another problem is the following: not all of Turkey is in Europe, but in Europe lies the biggest city of the land: Istanbul I have interviewed nine (9) people and almost all of their were not in favour of the entrance of Turkey because the religion of the state are the Islam. Who writes explains the European Union is not a Christian club and the Union’s founding articles include respect for religious freedom. Most people believe that Islam is disagree with the democracy. The journalist want demonstrate is not really that the Islam in not in according to democracy, in his opinion Turkey is a good test-case as any with which to prove the point. I am not agree about the admission the Turkey in EU: in the land in actually the capital punishment. In my opinion this question is primary to enter in the Union, I believe so. In regard to the religion I think that the Islam does not respect the human rights (especially with the woman)and that of a poverty is another important question. I say that the question of the entrance of Turkey very tactful and complicated, there are some aspects to value.