The ineffectiveness of Turkey's reforms to join the European Union

From 2001, with the establishment of the Justice and Development Party, the groundwork was laid for fundamental reform. Turkey's main macroeconomic strategy for achieving high economic growth has been to achieve considerable success by gaining popular support, transparency in policy-making and implementation, economic and political stability, and strong government support for the private sector. In addition to privatization, it has also paid special attention to attracting foreign capital through economic policy-making. However, several crises appear to have contributed to the ineffectiveness of the reforms or Turkey's achievement of the union aspirations. The following article seeks to answer the question of what crises it has faced for its economic prosperity despite the reforms in the Turkish economy. The research findings indicate the existence of three internal crises (corruption and dictatorship, government-military relationship, unjustified economic investment), regional (such as the Syrian crisis) and international (EU and US pressures) on the Turkish economy and its accession to the EU.