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EU-Turkey energy relations in the context of EU accession negotiations / David Koranyi and Nicolò Sartori -- The potential role of Turkey in a globalizing gas market / Mehmet Doğan Üçok -- Can eastern Mediterranean gas discoveries have a positive impact on Turkey-EU relations? / Ayla Gürel and Fiona Mullen -- Untangling the Turkey-KRG energy partnership : looking beyond economic drivers / Gönül Tol -- Turkey's migration transition and its implications for the Euro-Turkish transnational space / Ahmet İçduygu -- EU-Turkey relations : a visa breakthrough? / Gerald Knaus -- The EU and Turkey's asylum policy in light of the Syrian crisis /Juliette Tolay -- Turkey, Europe and the Syrian crisis : what went wrong? / Nathalie Tocci -- Europeanization, framing competition, and civil society in the EU and Turkey / Ayhan Kaya and Raffaele Marchetti -- "Euro-Turks" : a commentary / Anna Triandafyllidou -- Crises and elections : what are the consequences for Turkey's EU bid? / Eduard Soler i Lecha -- The future of Europe, differentiated integration and Turkey's role / Meltem Müftüler-Baç

This book examines EU discourses on Turkey in the European Commission, European Parliament and three EU member states (France, Germany and Britain), to reveal the discursive construction of European identity through EU representations of Turkey. Based on a poststructuralist framework that conceptualizes identity as discursively constructed through difference, the book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to the analysis of texts and argues that there are multiple Europe(s) that are constructed in talks over the enlargement of Turkey, varying within and between different ideological, national and institutional contexts. The book discerns four main discourse topics over which these Europe(s) are constructed, corresponding to the conceptualization of Europe as a security community, as an upholder of democratic values, as a political project and as a cultural space. The book argues that Turkey constitutes a key case in exploring various discursive constructs of European identity, since the talks on Turkey pave the way for the construction of different versions of Europe in discourse.

FEUTURE Voice No.3 On December 11, 2017, 25 member states of the European Union (EU) formally launched the permanent structured cooperation (PESCO) in the area of defense. Although the legal provisions behind PESCO have been in place since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, they have not translated into any concrete initiative until recently. A multitude of factors from the British decision to exit the EU and Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 to the growing rift in foreign policy and security issues between the EU and the Trump administration, including doubts over the commitment of the latter towards the transatlantic alliance, have played a key role in the EU's decision to move toward a more integrated security and defense policy. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein

AbstractThis article aims to explore whether – and if so, how – the EU is perceived as a normative power (NPE) in Turkey in the context of deteriorating Turkey–EU relations. By adopting the Habermasian understanding that legitimacy is a prerequisite for NPE and through employing a focus group methodology novel to NPE research, the article finds that a certain segment of the Turkish public views the EU as a normative power, suggesting that claims for the existence of NPE need to be qualified both by the level of analysis and by the local context which comprises socio‐cultural factors as well as government/opposition dynamics. The article also shows that contestation of the EU's actorness takes place over moral and ethical‐political arguments rather than utility‐based debates, demonstrating that polarization is noticeably present as far as the EU's normativity is concerned, and not on the perceived costs and benefits of EU accession.

La construction de l'Europe par la Turquie : perceptions françaises sur l'accession de la turquie à l'Union européenne La France est l'un des États-membres clés à contribuer au débat sur les relations de la Turquie avec l'Union européenne. L'objectif de cet article est d'éclairer les différentes 'Europes' qui sont construites dans les débats entre hommes politiques français sur l'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne. Depuis que la Turquie est décrite comme un défi fondamental au projet européen en raison des ambiguïtés entourant son européanité, les débats politiques français sur la Turquie sont considérés comme un terrain essentiel où sont formulées des constructions variées de l'Europe dans un contexte national qui demeure au cœur de l'intégration européenne .

FEUTURE Online Paper No. 4 This FEUTURE paper focuses on Turkey's and Europe's perceptions of each other in identity and cultural terms between two periods: 1789-1922 and 1923-1945. It identifies the identity representations developed by both sides in response to key selected political and cultural drivers of these periods by subjecting the writings of prominent Ottoman bureaucrats and intellectuals in the first period as well as newspaper articles and editorials in Europe and Turkey in both periods to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Identity representations are then discussed in relation to the pre-identified focal issues in the relationship; namely nationalism, status in international society, civilisation and state-citizen relations. The paper finds that there is no linear pattern to identity representations that are constantly contested in both the Turkish and European contexts. Certain positive and negative events trigger identity representations in novel ways, feeding into a set of relations which can be identified by conflict, convergence or cooperation. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Thomas Matussek und Claudia K. Huber: Europa - Traum und Wirklichkeit. - S. 8-13