''If this decision is a stick aimed at Turkey, let's say that the stick in the hands of the EU is extremely weak,'' said Korkmaz on The EU commission's decision to shift Turkey to the MENA unit.
In 2019, Turkey was involved in the "Strategy and Turkey" unit of the organizational chart of the NEAR General Directorate and separated from Neighbourhood South that includes countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Palestine.which states that ''Turkey has been moving further away from the European Union.''
According to Prof Dr Nursin Guney, academic at Nisantasi University, the Union at this stage does not consider Turkey-EU relations from the perspective of membership and even pretends that the accession process does not exist. The Western Balkans has been a region of a power struggle for some time. Here, Russia and the US have their own means of engagement while the EU's strength, determination and financial capacity are not enough to prevent or balance these powers. ''The most effective carrot that the EU can offer to the Western Balkans in the face of all these influential actors is the membership to the EU,'' said Korkmaz.
The Eastern Mediterranean crisis emerges as another important dimension since Turkey, as a stakeholder, started its drilling activities in the region. Calling this action, the EU froze the accession process and imposed some symbolic sanctions. Since then, the relations have become fractious. ''If this decision is a stick aimed at Turkey, let's say that the stick in the hands of the EU is extremely weak,'' said Korkmaz, emphasizing that the EU cannot raise its bureaucratic stick against Turkey so high that it moves the negotiations completely out of the candidacy status.
Dr Jana Jabbour, political scientist and Associate Fellow at the American University of Beirut's Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, denoted the personal aspect of this decision by emphasizing the ''sofa gate'' incident, a protocol crisis during a meeting between the EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, the EU President Council Charles Michel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
''The Privileged Partnership” is a proposal that grants cooperation between the EU and a non-EU country to develop common goals without using EU membership. Yet, such a proposal is strongly rejected by Turkey.
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