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Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the nature, direction, and impact of Turkey's foreign relations in its neighborhood—a region that encompasses Europe, the Middle East, the Black and Caspian seas, and the Caucasus. The authors of this original collection explore those changes, the causes behind them, and their impact on Turkey's ties with its traditional allies in the West

This insightful book analyses EU foreign policy vis-à-vis Turkey over the last institutional cycle, uncovering how its internal functioning and structural context affects the decisions made by the EU, in both day-to-day and crisis situations. It reconstructs and interprets EU–Turkey relations since 2014, arguing that Turkey has, overall, become a key strategic partner to the EU. Acknowledging that EU enlargement policy is part of a broader foreign policy framework, which also includes other domains such as the external dimension of migration and CFSP, Elena Baracani adopts a unique approach, combining more actor-oriented factors with structural factors to analyse EU–Turkey relations. Special features include the use of first-hand empirical material, an introduction to the concept of different shades of EU foreign policy, and a new, comprehensive evaluation of EU foreign policy actorness.

AbstractIn a democracy it is through the process of voting that people find an opportunity to register their likes and dislikes of domestic and foreign policy decisions most effectively. In Turkey, the recent national elections on 22 July 2007 provided an opportunity to observe the nexus between voters' choices and foreign policy issues. Questions pertaining to problems facing the country and the campaign issues fail to give any clue as to whether people paid attention to foreign policy in making their choices among the political parties of the country. However, a closer examination of the factors determining the vote indicates that, although party identification and satisfaction with the performance of the economy and the expectations of the government in managing the economy played major roles, attitudes towards the European Union (EU), nationalism, and globalization closely followed in magnitude those two factors in determining the voters' party preferences across the left-right spectrum. While AKP supporters had the most favorable attitude towards the EU, MHP supporters appeared highly nationalistic, and CHP voters seemed most influenced by positive orientations to openness to the world.

ÖZETBu tez çalışmasında, Türk Dış Politikasının Avrupalılaşması, rasyonel tercih kurumsalcı bakış açısından ele alınmaktadır. Tezin temel argümanı Türk Dış Politikasının Avrupalılaşmasında rasyonel faydacı bir yaklaşımın etkili olduğudur. Nitekim, Avrupalılaşmanın karşılığında Türkiye'nin AB'ye tam üye olması beklenmektedir. Bu çerçevede, ilk olarak, Üye ve Aday Devletlerde iç ve dış politika alanlarının Avrupalılaşmasını açıklamaya yönelik teorik çerçeve sunulmaktadır. Ayrıca, Türk Dış Politikasının Avrupalılaşmasının genel bir incelemesi yapılmaktadır. Daha sonra, Türkiye-Yunanistan ilişkileri Ege Sorunu özelinde ele alınmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, Ege Sorununun hukuki ve politik yanları incelenmekte ve iki ülkenin konuya ilişkin görüş farklılıkları ortaya konmaktadır. Takip eden bölümde, Türk ve Yunan Dış Politikalarında önemli bir mesele olan Ege Sorununun, 1999 yılı Aralık ayında gerçekleştirilen Helsinki Zirvesi'nde Avrupalılaştığı ifade edilmektedir. Türkiye-Yunanistan ilişkilerinin uzlaşma yönünde ilerlemesinde AB'nin ne derece etkili olduğu incelenmektedir. Ayrıca, Helsinki Zirvesi'nden önceki dönemde iki ülkeyi uzlaşmaya iten olaylardan kısaca bahsedilmektedir. Böylelikle, iki ülke arasındaki uzlaşma sürecinin, Türkiye'nin adaylığının Helsinki Zirvesi'nde ilan edilmesiyle Avrupalılaştığı ifade edilmektedir. Son olarak, Türk Dış Politikasının Avrupalılaşmasının AB'ye tam üyelik beklentisinin inandırıcılığını yitirmemesine önemli ölçüde bağlı olduğu sonucuna varılmaktadır.ABSTRACTIn this thesis, the Europeanization of foreign policy in Turkey is evaluated from the viewpoint of rational-choice institutionalism. The main argument of the thesis is that rational instrumentality underlies the Europeanization of foreign policy in Turkey because Turkey expects full membership of the EU in return for its Europeanization. In this regard, firstly, theoretical framework to account for the influence of the EU on domestic and foreign policy fields in the Member and Candidate States is presented. Also, an overall assessment of the Europeanization of foreign policy in Turkey is made. Then, Turkey-Greece relations are elaborated with special reference to the Aegean dispute. In this regard, the legal and political aspects of the Aegean dispute and bilateral differences of the two countries over it are studied. In the same vein, the Europeanization of the Aegean dispute at the December 1999 Helsinki European Council despite its high resilience in Turkish and Greek Foreign Policy is underlined. Then, the influence of the EU on the continuing process of rapprochement between Turkey and Greece is evaluated. Furthermore, incidents that pushed the two countries for rapprochement in the period before the 1999 Helsinki European Council are mentioned concisely. Thus, the Europeanization of the process of rapprochement between the two countries after Turkey's candidacy was declared at the 1999 Helsinki European Council is emphasized. Overall, it is concluded that the Europeanization of TFP is highly contingent on the credibility of the prospect of full membership of the EU.