Turkey's role in the EU's security and foreign policies

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Turkish women's predicament

To the foreign observer, Turkish women constitute an anomaly amongst Muslim societies. Since the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, Turkey has engaged in a project of modernization and secularization. As part and parcel of this process of modernization, Turkish women have been granted social, political, and legal rights. Despite Kemalist reforms of the 1920s, the basics of male domination stayed intact. It is this paradoxical character of Kemalist reforms that this article emphasises. The legal equality granted to Turkish women did not succeed in their emancipation. The image of Turkey as the only modern, secular, democratic country in the Islamic Middle East has been an effective distortion, concealing many truths about Turkey. The author proposes that the Mediterranean culture, the Islamist traditions, and the Kemalist ideology act together in perpetuating the oppression of women in Turkey and keep patriarchy intact

Enlargement preferences and policy-making in the European Union: impacts on Turkey

European Union policy changed considerably towards Turkey between 1997 and 1999. This paper analyses the circumstances surrounding this change, focusing on (a) the modification in the overall enlargement strategy of the EU and (b) the effect of the change in particular member states' preferences with regard to Turkish candidacy. We contend that these two developments converged to produce a rather dramatic alteration in policy towards Turkey from one of exclusion to one of inclusion

Turkish Parliamentarians' Perspectives on Turkey's Relations with the European Union

Discusses the results of interviews conducted on a sample of deputies in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, which addressed the lack of information on Turkish opinion regarding the European Union (EU). Background on the relations of Turkey with EU; Assessment of the nature of Turkey's negotiations with the EU, through the analysis of the attitudes of Turkish political elite; Perceived obstacles to Turkish membership in the EU; Factors that influence the incorporation of Turkey into the EU structure