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European Union is an economic and political organisation composed of twenty seven member countries and lands of which is largely in European continent This Union was established as a result of entry into the force of Maastricht Treaty also known as the European Union Treaty by giving new duties and responsibilities on to the existing European Economic Community Germany Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Netherlands England Ireland Spain Sweeden Italy Cyprus Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Hungary Malta Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia and Greece are the member countries of the Union In this study the compliance of Turkey to the criterias on the road to membership of the European Union was examined Clustering analysis is applied to certain economic criterias of Turkey and European Union’s twenty seven member countries By this analysis it is determined that Turkey is in which country groups Later convergence analysis is applied to the data of GDP per capita of European Union countries and Turkey The degree of economically closeness of Turkey to the European Union countries was determined with this analysis Keywords: EU EU Member States Cluster Analysis Convergence Analysis Turkey

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