Problematique in Turkish-French relations: the French perspective on Turkey’s candidacy for European Union membership

Download

index.pdf

Date

2019

Author

Çelikel, Ece

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

325
views

145
downloads

This thesis analyzes France’s assessment on Turkey’s candidacy for European Union (EU) membership, covering a time period of twenty years -from 1999 to 2019. By the time Turkey has obtained EU candidate country status at Helsinki EU Summit in 1999, a massive debate has occupied French socio-political spheres. Turkish candidacy has been never debated that widely in any EU member country other than France. Equally, France had never debated any candidate country that intensely other than Turkey. The thesis searches for the reasons behind these aspects and evaluates the general arguments along with facts constituting public opinion and leaders’ (multifaceted) discourses. The theoretical framework hereby assumes that values and identities construct discourses, making public opinion valuable as never before. The thesis, then, highlights the French national self-conception, prejudices about cultural characteristics are dominant parameters in forming the opinions of the public and that of leaders. The overall evaluation reveals French political leaders and the political elite in general -irrespective of their personal thoughts about Turkey’s adhesion, will always invoke public opinion to decide on this particular issue.

Subject Keywords

Discourse analysis., Turkish-French Relations, Turkish European Union Adhesion, French Public Opinion, Discourse Analysis, Turkish Image

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12623422/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43700

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

The European Union factor in the United States-Turkey relations, 1995-1999 Çankaya, Mine; Kip Barnard, Fulya; Department of International Relations (2003) This study seeks to analyze the imperatives underlying the United States policy of supporting Turkey̕s full membership to the European Union from 1995 to 1999. It is basically composed of four parts. The first part discusses the US security policy in the regions surrounding Turkey following the demise of the Soviet Union. Accordingly, the US security policies towards Russia, the Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, the Central Asia and the Caucasus are examined. The second part is devoted to the examinatio...
Turkish Public Opinion and European Union Membership The state of The Art in Public Opinion Studies in Turkey Şenyuva, Özgehan (2006-03-01) This article presents the findings of a survey of the data collected on Turkish Public opinion and Turkey’s bid for European Union membership from late 1990s until 2004. The aim of the study is to present the state of the art in public opinion studies in Turkey by looking at different sectors, namely academics, international and private research. In this essay it is argued that the collection of qualified data on Turkish public opinion and EU, and the study of Turkish public opinion is very disregarded comp...
Reforming the European union budget: a socıal constructivist policy approach Deniz, Mustafa; Kahraman, Sevilay; Department of International Relations (2010) The budget of the European Union has accomplished a significant role for European integration in the history of the Union. However, it has not resulted into anticipated developments compatible with the Union’s institutional policy reform process in the last decades. The budget has emerged as a consequence of path dependent developments in its historical progress, which has dragged the European Union to a critical stage. It is rather challenging for the Union now to sustain the current structure of the budge...
THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT Kahraman, Sevilay (Ankara Avrupa Calismalari Dergisi, 2006) The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which can be viewed as the most significant geopolitical project of the European Union (EU) after 2004 enlargement, also constitutes one of the key issues of the external agenda of the Union. The ENP is a new policy initiated in 2003 and implemented in 2005 and it offers a new partnership between the enlarged EU and wider Europe, the latter including both the EU's old Southern neighbours and the new Eastern ones as well as the Southern Caucasus countries. Central to t...
Quality of life in Turkey : a comparative analysis with the European Union member states Kaya, Şafak; Özcan, Yusuf Ziya; Department of Sociology (2006) This study aims to describe the quality of life of Turkey in comparison with the European Union Member States including the other candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania. The main question in the study is to determine where Turkey stands in terms of quality of life domains in the membership process to the European Union. For this aim, “The European Quality of Life Survey” that has been launched in 2003 including 28 countries in Europe has been used. The survey consists of eight life domains including diffe...

Citation Formats

E. Çelikel, “Problematique in Turkish-French relations: the French perspective on Turkey’s candidacy for European Union membership,” Thesis (M.S.) -- Graduate School of Social Sciences. International Relations., Middle East Technical University, 2019.