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Account for the different political and public attitudes towards Turkey’s application for EU membership.

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Account for the different political and public attitudes towards Turkey's application for EU membership. What, in your view, is likely to be the outcome of negotiations? Turkey and EU Turkey first applied to join the EU was in 1987. Turkey was then made a European Union Associate Member in 1964. It was officially recognised as a candidate for membership in 1999 at the Helsinki sumit for the European Council. Turkey recently started negotiations in 2005 , this started a chain of events which lead to many differing public opinions, such as:> European Public: Turkey's application to join the EU has produced a range of different opinions amongst the existing 25 EU states. On one hand there are the strong supporters of Turkish membership such as Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain. On the other hand there are countries strongly opposed to 'full' membership like Austria, Germany and France. The situation in Germany is that...

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