Table of Contents

Introduction: Encounters with Europe in an Era of Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country? Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Alper Kaliber 1. From AKP’s ‘Conservative Democracy’ to ‘Advanced Democracy’: Shifts and Challenges in the Debate on ‘Europe’ Başak Alpan 2. Shifting Logics: The Discourses of Turkish Political Elites on EU Accession Canan Balkır and Sedef Eylemer 3. De-Europeanisation through Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AKP’s Election Speeches Senem Aydın-Düzgit 4. De-Europeanisation of Civil Society and Public Debates in Turkey: The Kurdish Question Revisited Alper Kaliber 5. Europeanisation and De-Europeanisation Dynamics in Turkey: The Case of Environmental Organisations Büke Boşnak 6. Policy Transfer and Discursive De-Europeanisation: Higher Education from Bologna to Turkey Özge Onursal-Beşgül 7. Why the EU Still Matters in Turkish Domestic Politics: Insights from Recent Reforms in Migration Policy Alexander Bürgin 8. De-Europeanisation or Counter-Conduct? Turkey’s Democratisation and the EU Münevver Cebeci 9. De-Europeanisation in Turkey: The Case of the Rule of Law Beken Saatçioğlu 10. Europeanisation or De-Europeanisation? Media Freedom in Turkey (1999–2015) Gözde Yılmaz

About the Author

Alper Kaliber is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Turkey. His areas of research include critical and regional security studies, European security, Europeanisation, the Cyprus conflict, Turkish foreign policy and Ottoman–Turkish modernisation. He has received several grants and awards including the Young Scientist Award from Turkey’s Science Academy (BAGEP) in 2014.

Senem Aydın-Düzgit is Associate Professor at Sabancı University, Turkey. She is the author of Turkey and the European Union (with Nathalie Tocci, 2015) and Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU (2012).