Turkey and the European Union: the other side of the coin

PapersIEMed (European Institute of the Mediterranean) No. 1, Oct 2007, 16 p.

Ilter Turan *

The Turkey-EU relationship is again occupying a prominent place on the agenda of some member countries these days. Mr. Sarkozy, the recently elected President of France, had made Turkey’s membership of the Union one of the major themes of his campaign, concluding that Turkey does not belong in Europe or in the European Union

* Ilter Turan is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University

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