Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions and Policies, Wulf Reiners,Ebru Turhan, Editör, Palgrave Macmillan, London , London, ss.107-139, 2021
‘Europeanization’
is deservedly the most popular yet most volatile buzzword for Turkish politics.
By taking stock of the conceptual framework of the Europeanisation literature
and by referring to
particular mechanisms and variants of Europeanization through an analysis of
the domains of policy, polity, and politics, this chapter explores
the Turkey-EU relations in
four different phases between 1963 and early 2020. In this respect, in the
first period (‘Europeanisation as Rapprochement’), Turkey’s age-old Westernization
project was consolidated through Europeanization and the EEC was seen as a
natural extension of European institutions and identity whereas in the second
period (‘Europeanisation as Conditionality’), there has been considerable
interest in the impact of Europeanization on particular aspects of domestic policies
and politics through EU conditionality and EU’s ‘democratization anchor’ role. In
the third (‘Europeanization as Retrenchment’) and fourth (‘Europeanization
as Denial’) periods categorized in this chapter, “Europe” was no longer the lingua franca in the Turkish political
landscape, a trend that is sometimes associated with the ‘de-Europeanisation’ trend
in the literature. The main argument of this chapter is that Europeanization is a versatile
and complex process covering vast areas of policy, politics, and polity, intertwined
with larger domestic, regional, and global processes and is not only limited to
Turkey’s EU accession.