PROTRACTED BETROTHAL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRESENT TURKEY-EUROPEAN UNION ANTAGONISM

Mustafa Onur TETİK

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PROTRACTED BETROTHAL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRESENT TURKEY-EUROPEAN UNION ANTAGONISM

Yazarlar:

Mustafa Onur TETİK

Yayıncı:

Hüzeyfe Süleyman ARSLAN

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Akademik Hassasiyetler 2021 Vol.8 Issue 15, pp.209-231

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000871224

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

pISSN:

2148-5933

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Özet:

 

The European Parliament called for the suspension of European Union (EU)-Turkey accession negotiations on the basis of democratic conditionality in March 2019. This development was a link of the chain of events that soured Turkey’s relations with the EU roughly since 2013. This article presents a historical assessment of Turkey’s interrelations with Europe and the EU that provides the historical context on which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government constructed its foreign policies antagonizing the EU since its third term. Scholarly and journalistic literature on the negative trend in Turkey–the EU relations mainly focuses on the failing democratic conditionality aspect of relations. This approach inevitably causes presentism trap in analyses. The paper sheds light on the historical context of relations turned into ideational baggage carried by the sides. In its overview of the past of interrelations, the article locates four historically institutional dimensions: (1) Mutual “otherness”, (2) Turkey’s modernization, (3) symbiotic modus vivendi and (4) regional power politics. The article also touches the role played by Turkey’s domestic secularist and conservative political schism. This analysis of political interrelations comes to the conclusion that the current problems are not only consequences of the AKP’s or the EU’s recent moves but also the burdens inherited from fluctuating historical experience. The parties’ past, and thus todays, are saliently intertwined. Therefore, these conditions do not let Turkey and the EU have a complete break-up or union regardless of contemporary agents’ intentions or decisions.

Makale detayları

PROTRACTED BETROTHAL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRESENT TURKEY-EUROPEAN UNION ANTAGONISM

Yazarlar:

Mustafa Onur TETİK

Yayıncı:

Hüzeyfe Süleyman ARSLAN

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Akademik Hassasiyetler 2021 Vol.8 Issue 15, pp.209-231

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000871224

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

pISSN:

2148-5933

Turkey

European Union

Turkish National Identity

Western Civilization

Historical Context

Sayı

Makale detayları

PROTRACTED BETROTHAL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRESENT TURKEY-EUROPEAN UNION ANTAGONISM

Yazarlar: Mustafa Onur TETİK

Yayıncı: Hüzeyfe Süleyman ARSLAN

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Akademik Hassasiyetler 2021 Vol.8 Issue 15, pp.209-231

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 4/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000871224

Sıklık: Üç Yıllık

pISSN: 2148-5933

Turkey

European Union

Turkish National Identity

Western Civilization

Historical Context

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Mustafa Onur TETİK

Yayıncı:

Hüzeyfe Süleyman ARSLAN

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Akademik Hassasiyetler 2021 Vol.8 Issue 15, pp.209-231

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000871224

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

pISSN:

2148-5933