Zooming into the ‘Domestic’ in Europeanization: Promotion of Fight against Corruption and Minority Rights in Turkey

Yilmaz, Gözde; Soyaltın, Diğdem

doi:10.1080/19448953.2013.864181

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“…Corruption was another major issue of contestation during the 2007 elections (Şarlak and Bali, 2008) The previous governments’ failures with regard to fighting corruption had become an integral part of the AKP’s electoral discourse (Yilmaz and Soyaltin, 2014), and the 2011 election was no exception. All the political parties accused the other political party leaders as corrupt.…”

Section: Overview Of the Political Situation In The Country Between Tmentioning

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More national less European? The comparison of the last two general elections in Turkey

Toker

2014

European Journal of Communication

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This article will examine how the media reported the 2011 election campaign in Turkey in comparison to the 2007 elections. In order to reflect the different ideological segments within the society (pro-secular, nationalist vs religious-conservative), four newspapers – Zaman, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet and Posta – are chosen. The empirical evidence suggests that there are similarities between the analysis of the 2011 elections and the previous research findings of the 2007 elections with regard to the topics garnered, the main themes and the absence of the European Union-membership-related narratives. Yet, we also observe a major difference in the 2011 elections. The themes of the contestation between competing party programmes, values, and issue positions have shifted away from the secularism and Islam to the daily politics such as the economic progress, the military operations, the terrorist attacks, the corruption allegations and the Kurdish issue.

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Section: Overview Of the Political Situation In The Country Between Tmentioning

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More national less European? The comparison of the last two general elections in Turkey

Toker

2014

European Journal of Communication

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“…The expulsion clause, however, contained in Article 8, has never been used. Suspension of membership rights has been used on several occasions, as applied to the delegations of Greece in 1969, Turkey in 1981and Russia in 2000. In 2014, Russia was again suspended from the CoE after its annexation of Crimea.…”

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(Un)Democratic change and use of social sanctions for domestic politics: Council of Europe monitoring in Turkey

Soyaltin-Colella

2020

International Political Science Review

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Monitoring is the formal instrument through which the Council of Europe imposes social sanctions on its member countries by publicly exposing their wrongdoings. As a soft governance tool, monitoring is argued to have a limited impact on state policies. Yet, in Turkey, Council of Europe monitoring worked to promote pro-democratic change and then backfired through the escalation of authoritarian practices. This article shows that being subjected to Council of Europe monitoring can lead to democratic change if and when its sanctioning requirements fit the political agenda of the incumbents and empower them against domestic opponents. In the case of misfit, the political costs of aligning with the Regional Organisations’ sanctions increase for governments at home. Yet, as the Turkish case indicates, the outcome has not been inertia but rather the reverse as the government used the Council of Europe’s social sanctions to legitimise its undemocratic measures until it regained power in internal political struggles.

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“…Mesela azınlık hakları konusunda devam eden reformlar, zamanla Kürt sorununa daha çok odaklanmıştır (Yılmaz, 2014a). Ayrıca hukukun üstünlüğü, sivil-asker ilişkileri, yolsuzlukla mücadele gibi konularda hız kesmesine rağmen reformlar devam etmiştir (Gürsoy, 2011;Noutcheva ve Aydın-Düzgit, 2012;Yılmaz ve Soyaltın, 2014;Yılmaz, 2014aYılmaz, , 2014b. Ayrıca 2010 yılında gerçekleşen Anayasa reformu ile yargı sistemi ve özellikle sivil-asker ilişkilerinin birçok alanı reforma sahne olmuştur (Gürsoy, 2011: 298-299;Noutcheva ve Aydın-Düzgit, 2012: 67;Yılmaz, 2014b: 305).…”

Section: Türkiye'nin Avrupalılaşması Ve İç Değişimunclassified

Turkey, Europeanization, and Domestic Change

Yilmaz¹

2015

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1999 yılında Avrupa Birliği'ne aday ülke statüsü kazanan Türkiye'nin Avrupalılaşma süreci hızlanmış fakat zaman içerisinde dalgalı bir seyir izlemiştir. 1999'dan sonraki üç yıl içerisinde pasif bir şekilde reformlara başlayan Ankara, 2002 seçimleri sonrasında Avrupalılaşma reformlarını hızlandırmıştır. 2005 yılı itibarı ile reformlar hız kesmiş ama yine de yamalı bir şekilde olsa da devam etmiştir. Orta ve Doğu Avrupa ülkelerinin Avrupalılaşma sürecini analiz eden çalışmaların başarısını ortaya koydukları Dış Teşvik Modeli artan uygulama maliyetleri ve kredibilitesi düşen Avrupa Birliği koşulluluk ilkesi çerçevesinde 2005 sonrası Türkiye'de devam eden reformları açıklamada yetersiz kalmıştır. Bu araştırma probleminden yola çıkan makale Türkiye'nin deneyimlediği bu dalgalı süreci Dış Teşvik Modeli'nin bel kemiğini oluşturan Avrupa Birliği koşulluluk ilkesi ve ulusal uygulama maliyetlerine maruz kalan veto odakları çerçevesinde incelemekte ve yetersiz kaldığı noktada reformların itici gücü olabilecek etkenleri incelemektedir. Makale Avrupa Birliği koşulluluk ilkesinin reformları itici etkisinin aday ülkelerin Avrupalılaşma sürecindeki tek etken olamayacağı, özellikle iç etkenlerin Avrupalılaşmaya olumlu etki yapabileceğidir.

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Zooming into the ‘Domestic’ in Europeanization: Promotion of Fight against Corruption and Minority Rights in Turkey

Cited by 34 publications

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More national less European? The comparison of the last two general elections in Turkey

More national less European? The comparison of the last two general elections in Turkey

(Un)Democratic change and use of social sanctions for domestic politics: Council of Europe monitoring in Turkey

Turkey, Europeanization, and Domestic Change

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