Published on 17 August 2022
ABSTRACT: This study aims to review Turkish-EU relations by highlighting the main dynamics of the Turkish accession efforts. It argues that although the early 2000s led to a visible legal transformation and Europeanization supported by almost all-party consensus in Turkey yielding fruits, after 2006 the initial enthusiasm evaporated and the EU accession negotiations after 2016 were stopped in practice due to several reasons. The paper intends to reveal the main causes of the change and to describe how Turkey’s relation deteriorated with the EU and its several Member States.
KEY WORDS: Turkey, European Union, enlargement, Europeanization.
