ABSTRACT

The EU-Turkey Customs Union is one of the much important touchstones of one integration organization, having an international dimensional. The cause of gaining such a distinctive qualification to the Customs Union is that it has a power affecting an economy of any country from productive to consumption in all briefly.

Turkey has known that they would live the Customs Union reality since the beginning of the application days to be admitted to the European Economic Community. While agreement came into effect after a 22 year timetable, Turkey has encountered difficulties and problems since they could not be ready by themselves in this preparation duration. The argument that these difficulties came also from Turkey was not true, as the European Economic Community, in which we was included, did not fulfill the responsibilities they formally agreed upon mutually and have asserted various reasons.

Therefore, in such situation, the EU-Turkey Customs Union duration has affected the economy of Turkey on a large scale. These effects, which are matters in questions for the Turkish economy, were realized much more than the general effects the Customs Union Agreement has caused.