We
processed the data of question 4.
The question posed
was:
“What do you think about the entry of Turkey into the European Union (pros
and cons)?”.
We analysed 60 answers and organized them into 3 tables on the basis of gender and age. The first table deals with the opinion of
the interviewed about question posed; the second one considers the pros
about the enlargement of EU in favour of Turkey and the last one deals with the
cons. Both pros and cons were classified considering different factors ( economical,
political, cultural and so on)
From the analysis of results it appears that young people's knowledge about Turkey's eventual membership in EU is rather low. To tell the truth very rarely the subject is studied at school.
Generally speaking peopledo not seem deeply informed about this context but all the same they expressed an opinion about the matter. Clearly there are people who know more than others about the question probably because they read newspapers or are more interested; vice versa there are people who do not care at all about the issue which they consider absolutely irrelevant. Probably the lack of information is due to the fact that EU is generally not a school subject or at least it is left to the free choice of singular teachers.
There is not a balance between negative or positive opinions about Turkey's joining the European Union: uncertain answers are very near in number to the positive ones; therefore it is easy to understand that a lot of people are not prepared on the subject or know nothing at all about it.
The hardest moment of our work was the analysis of the pros and cons because a lot of factors may influence one's opinion. It follows that it was difficult to summarize data in a coherent scheme since the data gathered are several.
The most mentioned pros and cons are of economical and cultural nature while the less mentioned concern the idea of enlargement, progress and the history of the countries.
In conclusion we can affirm that most of the interviewed do not seem to accept a possible entry of Turkey in EU probably because of their cultural and economical diversity.
Our personal opinion
From its origin, EU has developed a lot: at the beginning it was formed by just six members, now there are 25. The latest enlargement was in 2004 with the entry of 10 countries. Negotiations with Turkey are opened but the matter has not been concluded yet: Turkey is completely different from the other European countries for what concerns religion, political system,the attitude to human rights, women and so on. Mistrust dominates among European citizens and as a result hey are not favourable to the Turkish membership in EU.
Our personal opinion reflects the one of the majority: nowadays Turkey's usages and customs do not coincide with the habits of the members of E and in addition to this we think the process of “modernization” is just at the beginning.