Turkey's slow EU candidacy: Insurmountable hurdles to membership or simple euro-skepticism?

Turkey and the European Union: Domestic Politics, Economic Integration and International Dynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 140-160

  Avci, Gamze ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84905934235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203011485     Document Type: Chapter

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6. For an in-depth discussion of how the progress reports are composed and what they contain, see Graham Avery and Fraser Cameron, The Enlargement of the European Union (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp.34-92.
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8. House of Commons, Select Committee on Foreign Affairs. 6th Report: Turkey,#DXLT#http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/ cmselect/cmfaff/606/60602.htm#DXGT#, prepared May 30, 2002, available as of July 17, 2002.
9. For a recent discussion of the MHP's nationalism, see Alev Çinar and Burak Arikan, "The Nationalist Action Party: Representing the State, the Nation or the Nationalists?," Turkish Studies, Vol.3, No.1 (Spring 2002), pp.25-40.
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11. Devlet Bahçeli's group speech at the National Assembly, June 11, 2002, #DXLT#http://www.mhp.org.tr#DXGT#.
12. See, for example, the mention in Jolyon Naegele, "Turkey: Party Leaders Agree To Postpone Ocalan's Execution," Radio Free Europe, Jan.13, 2000, #DXLT#http://www.rferl.org#DXGT#.
13. #DXLT#http://www.abhaber.com#DXGT#, June 26, 2002.
14. Bahçeli (July-Aug. 2002), #DXLT#http://www.türkiyevesiyaset.com#DXGT#.
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18. "A general speaks his mind," Economist, March 16, 2002.
19. See Simon Hix, The Political System of the European Union (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 158-65. For example, 94 percent of all elites see EU membership as a good thing, compared to only 48 percent of the general public.
20. Jean-Christophe Peuch, "Turkey: Reforms Raise Hopes For EU Membership, But Brussels Remains Cautious," Radio Free Europe, Aug. 6, 2002, #DXLT#http://www.rerl.org#DXGT#.