Fuat Canan

The Impact of Europeanization on Turkish Foreign Policy: an Analysis of Period Since 1999 Fuat Canan

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.