Turkey and EUrope: Identity and Other Crises

Wood, Steve

doi:10.1080/14683849.2013.802917

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“…On the other hand, debates in Europe regarding Turkey’s EU membership primarily reveal ‘Europe’s own confusion and hesitancy about its own identity’ ( Müftüler-Baç & Taşkın, 2007 ; Wood, 2013 ). There is a duality among Europeans about whether to judge Turkey’s membership with reference to its compatibility with ‘thick’ European ‘culture’ or its compliance with ‘thin’ European ‘values’ ( Aydın-Düzgit, 2011 ; Benhabib & Isiksel, 2006 ; Dostál et al , 2011 ; Jones, 2013 ; Kirişci, 2008 ; Le Gloannec, 2006 ; Özoğuz, 2007 ).…”

Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe and Turkey: identities in evolution. An analytical literature review

Gulmez¹,

Topal²,

Rumelili³

2023

Open Res Europe

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This research aims to offer a valid answer to the question of how Turks and Europeans perceived each other in cultural and identity terms throughout history. With this purpose, it makes a thorough analytical review of the extant scholarly literature on identity relations between Turkey and Europe. There is an evident lack of scholarly attention on the evolution of mutual representations comparatively in the long durée. Most scholarly works focus on specific periods of time and investigate either how Turks view Europe or visa-versa. This systematic review provides the basis for an evolutionary analysis of mutual identity representations between Turkey and Europe over more than a two-hundred-year period. The period under focus starts with the French Revolution (1789) triggering intensive identity debates between Ottomans and Europeans and lasts until mid-2010s when bilateral relations between Turkey and the European Union went into disarray. This long period has been divided into four shorter periods each starting and ending with a remarkable event in world politics or bilateral relations. The study examines each period in relation to four focal issues, namely, nationalism, civilization, status in international society, and state-citizen relations generating intensive identity discussions in both Turkey and Europe. The article first presents the key findings of the relevant literature on European representations of Turkey and on Turkish representations of Europe in the four historical periods. Then it scrutinizes the extant literature on each period with respect to the four focal issues. Overall, the study, through a comprehensive literature review, demonstrates the ways in which mutual identity representations in Turkey and Europe have been contested over a two-hundred-year period.

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Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe and Turkey: identities in evolution. An analytical literature review

Gulmez¹,

Topal²,

Rumelili³

2023

Open Res Europe

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“…However, the accession negotiations have been suspended since 1997 after the European Council placed Turkey in a separate category of applicant states. Although never stated explicitly, many Europeans were, and still are, concerned by the fact that Turkey is a large Muslim State (Smith 2011); thus in 2008, only 31 % of the EU27 supported Turkey's membership (Wood 2013).…”

Section: Turkey-eumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, this depends on the annual progress report on Turkey, as well as on how Turkey handles issues pertaining to democracy and human rights. It is unclear at the time of writing whether Turkey itself is ready to embrace these principles; for example, the Erdogan government has even expressed cultural incompatibility with the EU over the headscarf issue (Wood 2013). In addition, he has accused the West of trying to oust him from power.…”

Section: Turkey-eumentioning

confidence: 99%

Great Powers and Geopolitics

Klieman¹

2015

Global Power Shift

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Ample empirical evidence points to recent power shifts in multiple areas of international relations taking place between industrialized countries and emerging powers, and between states and non-state actors. Yet there is a dearth of theoretical interpretation and synthesis of these findings, and a growing need for coherent approaches to understand and measure the transformation. This edited series aims to bring together scholars from all major world regions as well as different disciplines in order to discuss and possibly blend their different approaches and provide new frameworks for the understanding of global affairs and the governance of global power shifts. More information about this series at

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Congruous or Conflicting? Great Power Configurations in the Balkans

Bobić

2015

Global Power Shift

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Turkey and EUrope: Identity and Other Crises

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Europe and Turkey: identities in evolution. An analytical literature review

Europe and Turkey: identities in evolution. An analytical literature review

Great Powers and Geopolitics

Congruous or Conflicting? Great Power Configurations in the Balkans

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