This course aims to develop a theoretical and analytical perspective on Turkey EU relations for students. In this context, students will be able to critically evaluate the basic issues related to the European Union and Turkey relations.
The course begins with an overview of the historical development of Turkey and the European Union Relations and provides analytical discussions on the question of identity. The European Union enlargement process is examined from different theoretical perspectives.
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes | Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| Students will have detailed information about the Turkey-EU relations. | 2,9 | 1,2,3 | A |
| Students can discuss the European enlargement process from different theoretical perspectives. | 2,7 | 1,2,3 | A |
| Students can discuss the main issues in the relations between Turkey and the European Union with different perspectives. | 2,3 | 1,2,3 | A,D |
| Students will be able to measure future scenarios by assessing the dynamics of European Union and Turkey relations. | 2,10 | 1,2,3 | A,D |
Course Flow
| DERS AKIŞI | |||
| Hafta | Konular | Ön Hazırlık | |
| 1 | Introduction: An overview of Turkey-EU relations |
Müftüler-Baç 2000
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| 2 | Identity in Turkey-EU relations: Is Turkey European? |
Kösebalaban 2007
Wood 2013 |
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| 3 | Turkey’s relations with the EU: A historical perspective |
Hughes 2001
Öniş 2001 |
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| 4 | European enlargement: A theoretical account |
Schimmelfennig 2001
Sjursen 2002 |
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| 5 | Turkey: A challenge for European Enlargement |
Redmond 2007
Morelli 2013 İçener et. al. 2010 Schimmelfennig, 2009 |
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| 6 | The European public opinion towards Turkey |
Pahre 2009
McLaren 2007 Sokullu 2011 |
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| 7 | Turkish public opinion towards EU membership |
Çarkoğlu 2011
Cenker 2008 |
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| 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | ||
| 9 | The impact of the EU on Turkey: Democracy and Human Rights |
Gürsoy 2011
Müftüler-Baş 2005 Türkeş 2011 |
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| 10 | The Impact of the EU on Turkey: Economy |
Fırat 2013
Choudhury 2009 |
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| 11 | The Impact of the EU on Turkey: Foreign Policy |
Müftüler-Baç&Gürsoy 2010
Oğuzlu 2010 Öniş&Yılmaz 2009 |
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| 12 | Turkey, EU and Cyprus |
Kyris 2012
Kerlindsay 2007 Adamczyk 2012 |
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| 13 | The Current Stalemate |
Aydın-Düzgit&Keyman 2012
Bürgin 2012 |
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| 14 | The Future of Relations |
Tocci 2012
Karakaş 2013 |
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| 15 | Conclusion | ||
Recommended Sources
| Sources | |||
| Temel Kaynak |
Meltem Müftüler-Baç, “Through the Looking Glass: Turkey in Europe”, Turkish Studies, vol.1, no.1, Spring 2000, pp.21-35.
Hasan Kösebalaban, “The Permanent ‘Other’? Turkey and the Question of European Identity, Mediterranean Quarterly, 18:4, 2007, pp.83-111.
Steve Wood, “Turkey and Europe: Identity and Other Crises”, TurkishStudies, 14:2, 2013, pp.272-291
Edel Hughes, “Weighing history: Turkey’s Path to Accession in Turkey’s Accession to the European Union, Oxon: Routledge, 2001, 15-56.
Ziya Öniş "An Awkward Partnership: Turkey's Relations with the European Union in Comparative-Historical Perspective". Journal of European Integration History, Vol. 7, No.1, Spring 2001.
Frank Schimmelfennig, ‘The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union’ , International Organization, 55 (1): 2001, 47-80.
Helene Sjursen, ‘Why Enlarge’, Journal of Common Market Studies , 40 (3): 2002, 491-515.
John Redmond, “Turkey and the European Union: Troubled European or European trouble? ”, International Affairs, Vol. 83, no.2, March 2007, pp.305.
Vincent Morelli, “European Union’s Enlargement: A Status Report on Turkey’s Accession Negotiations”, CPS Report for Congress, 2013, 1-18.
Erhan İçener, David Phinnemore and Dimitris Papadimitriou, “Continuity and change in the European Union's approach to enlargement: Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe compared”, Journal of Southeast European & Black Sea Studies, 10(2), 2010, p.207-223.
Frank Schimmelfennig, ‘Entrapped Again? The way to EU membership negotiations with Turkey”, International Politics, 46(4), 2009, pp.413-431. Robert Pahre and Burcu Ucaray-Mangitli, “The Myths of Turkish Influence in the European Union” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 47, no.2, March 2009, pp.357-384.
Lauren McLaren, Explaining opposition to Turkish membership of the EU, European Union Politics,vol. 8, no.2, June 2007, pp.251-278.•
Canan Sokullu, “Turcoscepticism and threat perception: European public and elite opinion on Turkey's protracted EU membership”, South European Society and Politics, 16 (3), 2011, p.483-497. Ali Çarkoğlu and Çiğdem Kentmen, “Diagnosing trends and determinants in public support for Turkey's EU membership”, South European Society and Politics, 16(3), 2011, p.365-379.
Işıl Cerem Cenker, “Turkey’s Changing Perceptions of the EU: From Partnership to Patronship – The Ever Chaning Nature of EU Conditionality in an Ever Distanced Europe” in Turkey-European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities, and Constraints, eds. Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Yannis Stivachtis, Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2008.
Yaprak Gürsoy, “The Impact of EU-Driven Reforms on the Political Autonomy of the Turkish Military”, South European Society and Politics, 16( 2), 2011, 293-308.
Meltem Müftüler Baç, ‘Turkey’s Political Reforms: The Impact of the European Union’, South East European Politics and Societies , 10 (1): 2005, 16-30.
M.Selin Türkeş, “Human Rights in the European Union ’ s Foreign Policy Universal in Discourse , Flexible in Practice”, RECON Online Working Paper, 21, 2011.
Bilge Fırat, “Failed promises: economic integration, bureaucratic encounters, and the EU-Turkey Customs Union”, Dialectical Anthropology, 37(1), 2013, pp 1-26.
Askar Choudhury and G.N.Naidu, “Turkey's economic integratıon with the EU: an evaluation of current status and future prognosis”, Journal of International Business Research, 8(1), 2009, p29-43.
Meltem Müftüler-Bac and Yaprak Gursoy, “Is there a Europeanization of Turkish Foreign Policy?: An Addendum to the Literature on EU Candidates”,Turkish Studies, Volume 11, Number 3, September 2010, 405-427.
Tarık Oğuzlu, “Turkey and Europeanization of Foreign Policy?”, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 125(4), 2010, p.657-683.
Ziya Öniş and Suhnaz Yılmaz, “Between Europeanization and Euro-Asianism: Foreign policy activism in Turkey during the AKP era”, Turkish Studies, vol.10, no.1, 2009, pp.7-24. George Kyris, “The European Union and the Cyprus problem: a story of limited impetus”, Eastern Journal of European Studies, 3(1), 2012, p.87-99. • James Kerlindsay, “The Policies of Greece and Cyprus towards Turkey’s EU Accession”, Turkish Studies, 8(1), 2007.
Artur Adamczyk, “Cypriot Presidency in the Context of the Cyprus Question and EU-Turkey Relations”, Yearbook of Polish European Studies, 15, 2012, pp.107-123. Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Fuat Keyman, “EU-Turkey Relations and the Stagnation of Turkish Democracy”, Global Turkey in Europe Working Papers, 2, 2012, p.1–24. Alexander Bürgin, “Disappointment or New Strength: Exploring the Declining EU Support Among Turkish Students, Academics and Party Members”, Turkish Studies, 13(4), 2012, p.565-580.
Natali Tocci, N., & Bechev, D. “Will Turkey Find its Place in Post-Crisis Europe ?”, Global Turkey in Europe Policy Briefs, 5, 2012.
Cemal Karakaş, “EU-Turkey: Integration without Full Membership or Membership without Full Integration? A Conceptual Framework for Accession Alternatives”, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies , 2013, p.1-17. |
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Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | All reading materials will be provided by the instructor. |
| Assignments | Presentations will be made in groups. |
| Exams | The mid-term exam will be held during the course and in the classroom where the course is taught. |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Midterm | 1 | % 30 |
| Presentations | 1 | % 15 |
| Participation | 1 | % 15 |
| CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE | % 40 | |
| CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE | % 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | ||||||||||
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| 1 | Students will demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge of the basic concepts and theories of Political Science and International Relations as well as other related disciplines such as Law, Economics and Sociology. | X | ||||||||
| 2 | Students will interpret the structure, institutions and operation of national, international and supranational entities via utilization of the concepts and theories of Political Science and International relations and produce project reports that include possible solutions to problems of such institutions when necessary. | X | ||||||||
| 3 | Students will demonstrate that they have developed a comparative, analytical and interdisciplinary approach vis-à-vis human societies and political systems. | X | ||||||||
| 4 | Students will have improved their skills and awareness of personal responsibility and team membership through conducting group or independent research projects, doing internships and producing their graduation dissertations. | X | ||||||||
| 5 | Students will demonsrate proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data collections methods. | X | ||||||||
| 6 | Students will prove their understanding of the rapidly-evolving dynamics of national and global environments requires constant self-assessment, life-long learning, and the ability to formulate innovative solutions to maintain their personal and professional development. | X | ||||||||
| 7 | Students should be able to critically evaluate the body of knowledge in political science, assess self-competency and direct self-learning efforts accordingly. | X | ||||||||
| 8 | Students will implement written and oral communication skills in English and Turkish in both academic and professional settings. | X | ||||||||
| 9 | Students should be able to effectively demonstrate their knowledge of written, oral and reading skills in English both in international institutional settings and follow and interpret the global dynamics of the International Relations discipline. | X | ||||||||
| 10 | Students will demonstrate their social skills and experience required by public or private institutions or in the academia. | X | ||||||||
| 11 | Students will show empathy and respect towards societies other than one’s own. | X | ||||||||
| 12 | Students should be able to effectively utilize computer and information technologies commonly-used in the social sciences. | X | ||||||||
| 13 | Students will interpret domestic and international developments and express opinions, having acquired advanced knowledge and proficiency in the via communication with international scholars and students. | X | ||||||||
| 14 | Students will respect personal, social and academic ethical norms. | X | ||||||||
| 15 | Students should understand the personal, social, and ecological dimensions of social responsibility, and show duties of active and global citizenship. | X | ||||||||
| 16 | Students should know that universality of social-political and legal rights and social justice are the principle components of contemporary society, and that scientific thinking is an essential prerequisite for maintaining social advancement and global competitiveness. | X | ||||||||
ECTS
| ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | |||
| Activities | Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 4 | 64 |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Homework | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final examination | 1 | 9 | 9 |
| Total Work Load | 125 | ||
| Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 5 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 5 | ||