Rethinking Conditionality: Turkey's European Union Accession and the Kurdish Question

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 416-432

  Cengiz, Firat ^a   Hoffmann, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84875673113     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12010     Document Type: Article

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