Abstract:

With the start of the Europen Union (EU) member candidacy process, Turkey has made changes in its constitution and laws for harmonization with the EU acquis, thus, Turkey has experienced significant developments in the fields of human rights, democratization and the rule of law. In this way, Turkey both has become an attractive country in terms of foreign investments and has drawn the image of a model country in its region. On the other hand, after the Greek Cypriot Administration's membership to the EU, representing the entire island, Turkey's membership negotiations have been started to suspense. At this point, although the deficiencies in freedom and democracy in Turkey are frequently brought to the agenda by EU countries; besides the EU policies that excluding Turkey, the negative views of France, Greece and the Greek Cypriot Administration towards Turkey's EU membership are also extremely effective. These exclusionary policies only serve to deepening of the differences in the perception and definition of security in Turkey-EU relations. On the verge of a systemic transformation in which the international system stands, the EU has been defined only with soft power instruments as an actor that is far from the vision of strategic action and lacks military capacity. The fact that an inclusive and constructive diplomatic ground could not be built between Turkey and EU, which EU claims to develop a regional identity, and that relations are indexed to the national interests of the member states, is against the normative discourse and principled stance of the EU. Establishing an inclusive dialogue environment between Turkey and EU relations can minimize the differences in security definitions as well as have the potential to strengthen the EU's global position.

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