Why is it difficult for Turkey to join the EU?

It is not that Turkey does not want to join the EU, but that the EU is unwilling to accept Turkey. There are many reasons for the EU's attitude. Everyone's answer has been around 7788. What I want to emphasize in particular is religious reasons. Turkey is an Islamic country, while all EU members are Catholics. After all, Europeans still have natural vigilance against Turkey. Because once Turkey joins the EU, the door for Turkish workers to work in the EU will be completely opened without any obstacles.

What would that feel like? The personal experience of the Germans in the past half century will tell you that the dumb can't tell the bitterness of eating Rhizoma Coptidis. After World War II, Germany once imported a lot of labor from Turkey because of labor shortage. It was originally planned to let them work in Turkey for a short time and then send them back to China. However, these Turkish laborers not only stayed, but also took over their families and multiplied in Germany, forming a huge Turkish community and becoming a huge social problem. These Turkish immigrants, for religious reasons, refused to integrate into the mainstream culture and were incompatible with the local society.

The EU does not want Turkey to catch the train of rapid economic development, but only hopes that Turkey can help itself solve problems in the field of political security. So there is such a strange phenomenon. On the one hand, Turkey is one of the earliest members of NATO, a European political organization.

On the other hand, Turkey's application to join NATO (earlier, it applied to join the European Union) has been rejected for decades. Ironically, Romania, Croatia, Czech Republic and other former socialist countries in Eastern Europe applied to join the EU much later than Turkey, but they are already members of the EU.

It's like everyone is waiting in line at the bus stop, and your father is in front of it early, but the ticket inspector won't let you get on the bus for various reasons, but let the people behind him get on the bus first. The bus has passed several times, and the people behind it have basically got on the bus, leaving you waiting at the bus stop. What's your mood at this moment? Therefore, when Erdogan became the leader of Turkey, he did not want to accept this humiliation, but directly fought with the EU. Turkey's diplomatic strategy is actually gradually adjusting, from being close to the West proposed by Kemal, the father of modern Turkey, to returning to the East and the Islamic world. This strategic transformation of Turkey is actually forced by the EU. As a regional power, the influence of Turkey's strategic transformation not only affects the regional situation.