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Accession of Turkey to the European Union
Turkey's application to accede to the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the
European Union
(EU), was made on 14 April 1987.
Turkey
has been an
associate member
since 1963. After the ten founding members, Turkey was one of the first countries to become a member of the
Council of Europe
in 1949, and was also a founding member of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) in 1961 and the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE) in 1973. The country has also been an associate member of the
Western European Union
from 1992 to its end in 2011, and is a part of the "Western Europe" branch of the
Western European and Others Group
(WEOG) at the
United Nations
. Turkey signed a
Customs Union agreement
with the EU in 1995 and was officially recognised as a candidate for full membership on 12 December 1999, at the
Helsinki
summit of the
European Council
. Negotiations were started on 3 October 2005. The membership bid has become a major controversy of the ongoing
enlargement of the European Union
.
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