Temporality and interaction in the EU-Turkey relationship

Official URL: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/metusd/issue/89090/1582084

This article provides an assessment of the history of the EU-Turkey relationship in the context of temporality and interaction put forward by Eralp (2009). Eralp has argued that there is a close relationship between temporality, interaction and Europeanization in the EU-Turkey relationship. The article argues and demonstrates that this conceptual framework does not only explain the tumultous nature of the relationship until the end of the 1990s, but also furthers our understanding of the souring of the EU-Turkey relationship and the ensuing de-Europeanisation of Turkey in the second decade of the 2000nds.