Turkey and Postnational Europe

Baban, Feyzi; Keyman, Fuat

doi:10.1177/1368431007085290

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“…Turkey’s cultural difference does not preclude its integration into Europe provided that it internalizes European norms and values ( Scherpereel, 2010 ). Turkey, hence, proves to be a major scene for contestation between universalism and particularism in Europe ( Aydın-Düzgit, 2012 ; Baban & Keyman, 2008 ; Diez, 2007 ; Levin, 2011 ; Macmillan, 2013 ; Risse, 2010 ; Rumeli & Çakmaklı, 2011 ).…”

Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, ‘Europeanness’ is largely associated with ‘democracy’, ‘democratic consolidation’ and ‘reform’ ( Alpan, 2015 ). Europe is also viewed as having a potential to become a post-national polity dependent upon Europeans’ ability to accept Turkey as an equal partner ( Aydın & Keyman, 2004 ; Baban & Keyman, 2008 ).…”

Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The discourse of ‘civilization’ is widely used by both opponents and proponents of Turkey’s EU accession ( Kuzmanovic, 2008 ). The opponents highlight the distinct character of Turkey that renders it unfit for EU membership ( Baban & Keyman, 2008: 115 ). Culturalist approaches to Europe emphasized by the opponents of Turkey’s EU entry primarily adopt a definiton of monolithic civilizations separating Europeans and Turks ( Ramm, 2009 ).…”

Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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

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Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Fourth Period (1999–2016)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Gulmez¹,

Topal²,

Rumelili³

2023

Open Res Europe

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“…As a result, it could be argued that the evolution of the immigration issue as a conflictual parameter made the institutionalization of the EU-Turkey relationship more unstable. When Turkey applied to the EU for full membership, a possible Turkish immigration inflow to the EC emerged as one of the main obstacles to Turkey's full membership [61,62]. For example, the immigration issue was one of the main reasons behind the German Chancellor Kohl's opposition to Turkey's full membership in the 1990s [63].…”

Section: Migration As a Conflictual Parameter In The Eu-turkey Relatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing instability as a future for an institutionalization process: the EU, Turkey and the issue of migration

Kaplan

2018

Eur J Futures Res

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This article argues that migration has evolved into a conflictual parameter in the institutionalization of the EU-Turkey relationship and that it plays a significant role in the formation of instability as the main feature of this institutionalization process. Moreover, migration in its nature is a dynamic/non-linear social phenomenon which makes an institutionalization process highly open to exogenous effects and quite unstable. Therefore, contrary to the mainstream institutionalist approaches, this case study argues that an institutionalization process does not necessarily bring about continuity in the wake of an exogenous shock, but if an institutionalization process contains conflictual parameters (like the migration issue) with a strong connection with endogenous and exogenous dynamics, instability/change might become the main feature of it. From this point of view, this study anticipates that the migration-like dynamic parameters will keep the European integration as an ongoing process in the future, and its structure will be subject to a continual change. Furthermore, this change-oriented institutionalization might make the EU more heterogeneous and multi-dimensional in time. Related to this anticipation, even though the migration issue plays an inhibitor role in Turkey's accession process to the EU at the moment, it might play a catalyst role in this process by making a differentiated membership a more reasonable option for both the EU countries and Turkey in a more differentiated EU structure in the future.

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“…This entails the perception of Turkish society as a homogenous entity, with little scope for diversity. It points to a single linear historical European narrative 43 and thus excludes accounts that point to the emergence of multiple modernities in Turkey where the clearly delineated categorizations do not necessarily match. 44 The wearing of the headscarf is a typical example in such accounts that emphasize the importance of the headscarf for Muslim women in carving a space for themselves in the public sphere.…”

Section: Conceptualization Of the Turkish Elite In The European Commissionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limits of Cosmopolitanism?

Suvarierol

Düzgit

2011

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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With its institutional motto of ''unity in diversity,'' the European Union (EU) officially embraces a cosmopolitan outlook. This article argues that this motto becomes reality within the institutions of the EU as the officials undergo a cosmopolitan transformation process by experiencing cultural diversity on a daily basis. This cosmopolitanism, however, is not without limits. The discussions on Turkey's EU candidacy are a case in point. By analyzing the discourses of Commission officials with regard to their own identity as well as their discourses on the Turkish elite, this article assesses the extent and limits of cosmopolitanism in the European Commission and its general implications for the EU.

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Turkey and Postnational Europe

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

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

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

Analysing instability as a future for an institutionalization process: the EU, Turkey and the issue of migration

Limits of Cosmopolitanism?

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