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Turkey's Eventual Membership of the EU: Turkish Elite Perspectives on the Issue
Author(s) -
McLaren Lauren M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5965.00211
Subject(s) - elite , turkish , citation , political science , media studies , sociology , library science , linguistics , law , computer science , philosophy , politics
Relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey have tended to waver between being semi-cordial and extremely strained. Throughout this rather long history of attempts at establishing close ties between the two parties, not much has been known about Turkish opinion regarding the EU. Thus, it is hoped that the current research can provide some insight into Turkish opinions relating to Turkey’s application for full membership to the EU by interviewing Turkish elites – academics, businessmen, journalists, and government ministers. Specifically, do they favour Turkey eventually joining the EU, and are they hopeful about this happening in the near future? Also, what do these individuals perceive to be the main reason that Turkey has not been admitted into the European Union, which countries do they perceive to be against Turkey’s full membership, and European Agenda