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Perhaps the most successful outcome of Turkey’s decades-long Western vocation has been the integration of its economy into the global trade and financial systems. Liberal market policies that were implemented starting in the early 1980s culminated in the establishment of a customs union for industrial goods with the European Union (EU) on December 31, 1995. The customs union boosted Turkey’s manufacturing sector, placing Turkey among the top 20 global exporters, when the EU is treated as a bloc, since then. It also aligned Turkey’s and the EU’s trade regulations, thereby strengthening Turkey’s economic competitiveness and its integration into the EU single market.