Transnational cooperation of Turkish political parties as an ineffective tool of Europeanization. Issue 2 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wódka, Jakub
• Is Part Of: Journal of southeast European and Black Sea studies. Volume 16:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 295
• Page End: 315
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Turkey -- EU -- transnational cooperation -- socialization -- Joint Parliamentary Committee -- Justice and Development Party -- Republican People's Party; Balkan Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Balkan Peninsula -- Periodicals; Black Sea Region -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Black Sea Region -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Black Sea Region -- Periodicals; 330.9496
• DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2016.1168640
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-3857

Abstract

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact transnational cooperation with European Union (EU) partners has had on Turkish political parties – the ruling Justice and Development Party and the Republican People's Party. Two main platforms of transnational cooperation, i.e., affiliation with political families in the European Parliament and the workings of the EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, are scrutinized. The article posits that transnational cooperation with partners on a European level has had a limited – if any – socialization effect on Turkish political organization. This stems mainly from ideological divergences between Turkish political parties and their European counterparts, EU scepticism which permeates political elites in Turkey as well as rising anti-Turkish sentiments within the EU establishment.