Justice and Development Party and the EU: an inquiry on the debates of euroscepticism in Turkey

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2012
Çiçek, Ceyhan
This thesis aims at analyzing the EU policy of AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma partisi - Justice and Development Party) based on the concepts of Euroscepticism and Europragmatism. Related to that aim initially the Euroscepticism and conjoint concepts are considered. Furthermore, Euroscepticism in Turkey is discussed at public and political party levels. To what extent the EU policy of AKP has undergone a change since it came to power in 2002 is discussed. Moreover the EU policy of MGH (Milli Görüş Hareketi - National Outlook Movement), a political movement from which AKP emanated is discussed. Looking at their EU policy, it is discussed to what extent AKP differs from the National Outlook Movement. Literature review and discourses of the party officials showed that the Political Islam in Turkey has been in a transformation process since 28 February Process and in this process EU has formed an anchor for the Political Islamists. AKP that separated from the Political Islam movement has also been affected by this transformation process. AKP has given support for the EU process if it serves to domestic goals of the party. However since 2005 due to the internal and external factors AKP’s commitment to the EU process has declined.

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C. Çiçek, “ Justice and Development Party and the EU: an inquiry on the debates of euroscepticism in Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.