^#smrgSAHAF Justice and Home Affairs Issues in Turkish - EU Relations -

Introduction: Turkish-EU relations entered a new era with the decision to declare Turkey a candidate country for membership at the Helsinki summit of December 1999. i Since then the adoption of the Accession Partnership Document (APD) issued by the EU in December 2000ii and the National Programme issued in April 2001iii by the Turkish government have set an agenda of issues to be addressed in preparing Turkey's accession. In general, considerable public attention has been given to the reforms that Turkey must introduce to meet the Copenhagen criteria and to foreign policy issues such as the question of Cyprus.