The main goal of the present study is to seek whether there is a compatibility between Turkey and the European Union (EU) in meeting the key challenges in the global platform, with a special focus on the international crises. With this purpose, the first part has been allotted to the conceptual and historical background. It began with an effort to define the international crisis (and the concepts derived from it) by presenting a historical development. Then, the factors that provide a parallelism for Turkey's and the EU's reactions to crises have been explored. The last chapter is related to...