article.page.titleprefix Turkey in-between the EU and China: from Europeanization to cooperation with China
Date
2023
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Publisher
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
Abstract
Turkey has been on the path of EU membership since the 2000s, and the democratization process was well underway during the initial years of its candidacy. However, this trend was reversed substantially, with Turkey growing increasingly authoritarian during the 2010s. This substantial democratic backsliding has led to increasing authoritarian cooperation with the authoritarian powers on the rise, one of which is China, whose increasing engagement and cooperation with Turkey marked an alternative gravity centre for Turkey to be pulled by. This article argues that Turkey, in line with the worsening domestic authoritarianism, has been engaging with the authoritarian powers for survival rather than engaging with the EU, which provided legitimacy to the rule of the AKP during the initial years of its rule.
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Published by Southeast European and Black Sea Studies; https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2023.2269776; Gözde Yilmaz, Nilgün Eliküçük Yıldırım Department of International Relations, Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey.
Keywords
Authoritarian cooperation; China; European Union; Europeanization; Turkey
Citation
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/1959