Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

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Çiğdem Hajipouran Benam

Çiğdem Hajipouran Benam
Turkey and the European Union: Processes of Europeanization
July 1, 2013
Almost eight years on from the start of accession negotiations, the view of Turkey-European Union (EU) relations is somber. The Union is too busy with its enlargement fatigue and economic turmoil, whereas Turkey has been experiencing a confidence boom as a result of its impressive economic performance and proactive foreign policy, pushing the two parties further apart. However, despite this gloomy picture in Turkey’s EU membership negotiations, change has been and is taking place in Turkish politics.

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