{"id":7922,"date":"2018-04-07T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2018-04-07T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:49:17","slug":"turkish-accession-to-eu-will-benefit-muslim-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkish-accession-to-eu-will-benefit-muslim-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Turkish accession to EU will benefit Muslim world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7174\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/EU-Turkey.jpg\" alt=\"EU Turkey\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Turkey\u2019s prospective accession to the European Union will benefit the Muslim world, said a senior official from Turkey\u2019s Ministry of EU Affairs on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u201cTurkey will be a bridge between the West and the Muslim world because Turkey has proved that it is a democracy, it has a constitution based on secularism and on the other hand it is a Muslim majority country,\u201d said Burak Erdenir, the deputy permanent delegate of Turkey\u2019s delegation to the EU.<br \/>\n\u201cTurkey\u2019s membership to the EU will be an antidote to Islamophobia,\u201d Erdenir added.<br \/>\nHis remarks came at a three-day conference, hosted by the Center for Islam and Global Affairs at Istanbul\u2019s Sabahattin Zaim University, with the theme \u201cContextualizing Islamophobia: Its Impact on Culture and Global Politics.\u201d<br \/>\nErdenir recalled the announcement of the launch of Turkey\u2019s accession talks in 2004. \u201cThere were more than 100 journalists from Muslim countries for the coverage of the news because it is a big issue for the Muslim countries.\u201d<br \/>\nTurkey applied for membership in the European Economic Community (a precursor to the EU) in 1987. It became eligible for EU membership in 1997 and accession talks began in 2005.<br \/>\nErdenir noted that migration has become a dominant issue in the western European societies.<br \/>\n\u201cThe role of Turkey is important in that sense,\u201d Erdenir said. \u201cAt the end of the day, Turkey would also be a facilitator in understanding the issues of the migrants and it would contribute to European policy-making process in implementing and solving their issue.\u201d<br \/>\nFeaturing scholars from Turkey and abroad, the conference focuses on Islamophobia in culture, society, politics, and international relations.<br \/>\nThe conference is intended to spur a discussion of \u201cstrategies and policies that need to be adopted and pursued to end or reduce the harmful and detrimental effects of Islamophobia,\u201d according to the university\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkish-accession-to-eu-will-benefit-muslim-world\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s prospective accession to the European Union will benefit the Muslim world, said a senior official from Turkey\u2019s Ministry of EU Affairs on Saturday. \u201cTurkey will be a bridge between the West and the Muslim world because Turkey has proved that it is a democracy, it has a constitution based on secularism and on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}