The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy

Terzi, Özlem

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“…By abiding by the EU conditionality, the Kemalist elite, notably the army and the judicial authority, no longer had the monopoly over the formulation of the elected governments’ policies and could not arbitrarily intervene to terminate their mandate in the name of the state secular principles (Çarkoğlu, ) . The accession process ensured not only the party survival as a conservative political party with an Islamic background, but also the implementation of an active and visible foreign policy toward Arab and Muslim states with the aim of solving problems with neighbors (Aydın & Acikmese, ; Sözen, ; Terzi, ).…”

Section: Elitist Duality and The Turkish Foreign Policymentioning

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Reconsidering Elitist Duality: Persistent Tension in the Turkish–Egyptian Relations

Magued

2016

Digest Mid East Studies

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Since the Muslim Brotherhood's ouster in July 3, 2013, tension has escalated between Turkey and Egypt and gained media attention as an unprecedented incident in bilateral relations. However, disagreement has characterized bilateral relations since the declaration of the Egyptian Republic and the launch of diplomatic relations with Turkey in the 1950s. By tracking the history of both countries' bilateral relations, this study contends that, according to the elitist duality thesis, Turkish-Egyptian relations were an exception to the Turkish-Arab relations, as they were not influenced by the ruling elite. It argues that regardless of the ruling elite identity, tension has disrupted the normal course of relations. By relying on extensive interviews conducted with members of the Justice and Development Party, and academicians and staff members in the Turkish ministries of economy and foreign affairs, the study analyzes the unaddressed tension in the Turkish-Egyptian relations since the 1950s until 2013 and provides policy recommendations to improve bilateral relations.

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Section: Elitist Duality and The Turkish Foreign Policymentioning

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Reconsidering Elitist Duality: Persistent Tension in the Turkish–Egyptian Relations

Magued

2016

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…There is also an emerging literature on Turkish Europeanization, addressing the limits of the EU's transformative power and whether the Europeanization approach needs further qualification in the Turkish case (Börzel 2012;Nas and Özer 2012). Looking through different theoretical lenses such as rational choice institutionalist and/or sociological institutionalist (Terzi 2010(Terzi , 2012Nas 2012;Yılmaz 2012), as well as examining discursive accounts (Kaliber 2012), scholars of Turkish Europeanization converge on the idea that the EU's domestic impact on Turkey shows significant variation when discussing certain policy areas (Terzi 2010(Terzi , 2012İzci 2012;Kaliber 2012;Macmillan 2012;Tsarouhas 2012), actors (Öniş 2009;Öner 2012;Terzi 2010) and issues (Özer 2012;Yılmaz 2012). Moreover, it is generally observed in those studies that EU conditionality and the credibility of the accession perspective have been widely studied as foreign policy pressure, yet, the role of domestic actors and/or factors in relation to conditionality and the accession process in inducing domestic change have been either eliminated (Aydın and Açıkmeşe 2007;Müftüler-Baç and Gürsoy 2010;Oğuzlu 2010) or overestimated (Kaliber 2012).…”

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“…Candidates are required to fulfil the Copenhagen Criteria and to achieve complete transfer of the acquis communautaire, including the acquis politique of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), before membership is finalized. In the area of foreign policy, for example, conciliatory rhetoric and the win-win approach adopted by Turkey towards the Cyprus problem would have been unthinkable without the EU conditionality and membership perspective given to Turkey, cemented by the European decisions to grant candidacy in 1999 and opening accession talks in 2005 (Aydın and Açıkmeşe 2007;Terzi 2010).…”

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The myth of ‘Europeanization’ of Turkish foreign policy: the Cyprus debacle as a litmus test

Ulug-Eryilmaz

2014

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This article examines Turkish–EU relations and the Cyprus issue within the Europeanization framework. It seeks to underline how and to what extent EU conditionality was performed in Turkey’s Cyprus policy in the post-Helsinki period. The exploration of the relationship between domestic political pressures and the foreign policy choices of the AKP government on the Cyprus issue suggests that EU’s potential in transforming the foreign policy of candidates is both context dependent and questionable. Alongside EU-related factors such as the credible membership perspective, what accounts for change is predominantly determined by how domestic actors perceive it, and how much domestic power struggles are affected by it. © 2014 Taylor & Francis

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“…34 After Turkey obtained an accession perspective in December 1999, successive governments have made substantial efforts to reconstruct asylum and migration policies and border control systems in line with the EU's priorities on irregular migration. 35 These measures fall under chapter 24 (Justice, Security, and Freedom) of the EU acquis and include regularizing illegal immigrants, establishing a penal framework for the supporters of irregular migration, tackling illegal employment, cooperating with third countries on issues such as joint patrols and surveillance, strengthening external borders, and concluding international agreements on readmission and human trafficking.…”

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Management of irregular migration: Syrians in Turkey as paradigm shifters for forced migration studies

Canefe¹

2016

New Perspect. Turk.

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In the context of the series of civil wars that have struck the Middle East since the 1980s, the politico-economic changes in the post-Soviet geography of Eastern Europe and the Russian states, and the continuous turmoil in those parts of Africa and Asia where access to Turkish soil has been possible, Turkey emerged as a regional hub for receiving continuous flows of forced migration. As suggested by ample evidence in recent work on migration flows into Turkey, many of these "irregular migrants," "stateless peoples," or "asylum seekers" eventually become continuously employed under very unstable circumstances, thus fitting into the definition of the "precariat" or precarious proletariat. This paper examines the context within which such pervasive precarity takes root, directly affecting vulnerable groups such as the Syrian forced migrants arriving in Turkey in successive waves. The marked qualities of the Syrian case in terms of social precarity, combined with the degrees of disenfranchisement and economically precarious conditions for survival, indicates an institutionalized paradigm shift in the Turkish state's management of irregular migration.

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The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy

Cited by 11 publications

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Reconsidering Elitist Duality: Persistent Tension in the Turkish–Egyptian Relations

Reconsidering Elitist Duality: Persistent Tension in the Turkish–Egyptian Relations

The myth of ‘Europeanization’ of Turkish foreign policy: the Cyprus debacle as a litmus test

Management of irregular migration: Syrians in Turkey as paradigm shifters for forced migration studies

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