{"id":24200,"date":"2010-10-24T05:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T02:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=24200"},"modified":"2014-01-05T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:26:00","slug":"civilian-constitution-in-turkey-key-leverage-for-enlargement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/24\/civilian-constitution-in-turkey-key-leverage-for-enlargement\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian constitution in Turkey key leverage for enlargement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fule said Turkey offered great opportunities in the changing world order, which meant &#8220;an important responsibility for Turkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 23 October 2010 15:02<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/stefan_fule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"190\" \/>European Union&#8217;s chief enlargement official has urged Turkey to draft a new constitution through extensive consultation between all political powers, the civil society and the public authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A civilian constitution is the most important starting point to strengthen a democracy system in line with the EU standards,&#8221; Stefan Fule, EU commissioner for enlargement, told the 7th Bogazici Conference on Turkey-European Union Relations in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Fule said the goal of negotiations was to secure a full-fledged accession, adding that any other status short of full membership could be targeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be the leaders not the spectators if we want the world to share our values. Turkey&#8217;s accession with the EU is important. Europe should take into consideration demands of the candidate countries while it pursues its own commitments,&#8221; Fule said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU official said Turkey offered great opportunities in the changing world order, which meant &#8220;an important responsibility for Turkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Turkey considers EU membership as a strategic target in accomplishing both national and international causes, then it has move closer to the EU values and it has to explain itself more to the EU citizens,&#8221; Fule said.<\/p>\n<p>Fule said a referendum last month over a raft of constitutional reforms affirmed Turkish people&#8217;s will for a more democratic country, adding that the referendum constituted &#8220;a very important step&#8221; towards a national democratic transformation based on human rights and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>AA<\/p>\n<p>via <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/news_detail.php?id=65500\">Civilian constitution in Turkey key leverage for enlargement [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ]<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fule said Turkey offered great opportunities in the changing world order, which meant &#8220;an important responsibility for Turkey.&#8221; Saturday, 23 October 2010 15:02 European Union&#8217;s chief enlargement official has urged Turkey to draft a new constitution through extensive consultation between all political powers, the civil society and the public authorities. &#8220;A civilian constitution is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":24202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}