Europeanisation or De-Europeanisation? Media Freedom in Turkey (1999–2015). Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yılmaz, Gözde
• Is Part Of: South European society & politics. Volume 21:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 147
• Page End: 161
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: De-Europeanisation -- democracy -- Europeanisation -- media freedom -- press freedom -- Turkey; Europe, Southern -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Europe, Southern -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 940
• DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1148102
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1360-8746

Abstract

Abstract: The European Union (EU) has successfully been exercising its transformative power through both its enlargement and its neighbourhood policies for decades. Nonetheless, transformation towards a more European model of governance through Europeanisation is not a linear process, but a differentiated one. Adverse consequences for Europeanisation (i.e. de-Europeanisation) have often been neglected. The case of media freedom in Turkey, with a deteriorating trend across time, exemplifies such an outcome. This article explores media freedom in Turkey in the last decade. It argues that media reforms have been reversed over time in a de-Europeanising trend, with the EU losing its position as a reference point for reforms.