Minority Rights in Turkey: A Battlefield for Europeanization

ISBN-13: 9780367876906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 170 str.

Gozde Yilmaz

Opis

This book examines how minority protection, as a highly sensitive and controversial issue, is promoted or constrained in EU’s neighbourhood by focusing on the case of Turkey. It offers a comprehensive and detailed scholarly examination of external Europeanization theories, minority rights in Europe and Turkey, the Europeanization of Turkey, and

Spis treści

Introduction: Exploring the Puzzle of Minority Rights 1. Theorizing Europeanization through Englargement: Pull and Push Model 2. Transformative Power of the European Union, Minority Rights and Turkey 3. Changing Minority Rights of Turkey in 1999-2014 4. Push without Pull in 1999-2004: EU Conditionality Triggers the Reforms 5. Transition to Pull without Push in 2005-2007: From the EU to the 'Domestic' 6. Pull without Push in 2008-2014: Drift from the EU and Rule by the 'Domestic' 7. Alternative Explanations Conclusions Bibliography

O autorze

Gozde Yilmaz is an Assistant Professor in Atılım University, Turkey. She completed her Ph.D. in Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), Free University Berlin. Her further research interests are European integration, Europeanization theories, external Europeanization, EU enlargement policy, European Neighbourhood Policy, Europeanization of Turkey, EU-Turkey Relations and EU-Ukraine Relations.