Impact of Europeanization on Turkish Foreign Policy

A considerable interest has recently emerged in§analysing the EU impact on Turkey s democratization§process, human rights and minority issues. Yet, few§studies exist with regard to the EU impact on Turkish§foreign policy. This book, therefore, provides reader§with a useful framework to understand major changes§in Turkish foreign policy with a specific reference§to the Europeanization impact on Turkish foreign§policy. The EU conditionality mechanism was mainly§employed as a method of examination to identify how§some of Turkey s foreign policy issues have been§reconstructed under the EU influence. The impact of§EU conditionality with respect to Turkish-Greek§relations and Cyprus issue is examined to illustrate§how some of the key foreign policy issues have§been reconstructed by Ankara recently. Likewise,§democratization reforms in line with the EU accession§process have radically altered civil-military§relations, thus having a major impact on the§democratization of foreign policy-making in Turkey.§This book makes a good contribution to the literature§on Europeanization of foreign policies, and should be§especially useful for analysts, academics, and§experts on Turkey.