Turkey’s responses in the face of the formation of European security and defense policy

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The study examines Turkey’s responses in the face of the formation of European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). The political responses over ESDP have two dimensions. From the viewpoint of Turkey, at the beginning she intended to participate in the process of decision making structure of the ESDP. Therefore, it can be concluded that Turkey is not against the formation of the ESDP. However, as a non-EU European NATO member, Turkey’s integration into European security and defense was welcomed but she was excluded from the strategic decision making structure of ESDP. As a result of this, formation of ESDP undermined the position of Turkey who has rights inherited over European security from Western European Union Associate and NATO Memberships. As Turkey was excluded from the decision making structure of ESDP, she put reservations to the EU-NATO cooperation as a NATO member. Secondly, from the viewpoint of European Union, she is trying to keep the decision making authority of ESDP in EU itself by excluding non-EU European states. Besides, Turkey’s full integration into European Security and Defense Policy was made contingent to the Turkey’s European Union membership. Turkey’s EU membership process should not be linked with her full participation, including decision making structure of the ESDP. European defense developments were considered to be as a challenge to NATO and US superiority in Europe. Developments in European defense and Turkey’s participation in this process were also examined in this study.

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European defense., European Security and Defense Policy.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16701

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E. Yüksel, “Turkey’s responses in the face of the formation of European security and defense policy,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.