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- Title
New Approaches to Conditionality in EU-Turkey Relations: Assessing the Role of Irregular Migration.
- Authors
Dalkıran, Müge
- Abstract
This article explores the evolving dynamics of EU-Turkey relations in the context of irregular migration. The European Union has historically employed conditionality as a political tool to influence Turkey's policy decisions and national legislation in alignment with EU standards. However, the EU's quest for the prevention of irregular migration and re-shaping its cooperation with Turkey in this manner has brought significant changes in their bilateral relationship. Moreover, there is a growing body of literature on how the EU's cooperation with third countries for "migration management" has resulted in the instrumentalization of irregular migration and reversed the conditionality against the EU by these countries, including Turkey. Based on a comprehensive analysis of policy documents and academic literature, this article identifies how the EU's and Turkey's responses to the irregular migration have created a complex interplay and affected the nature of bilateral cooperation, which raises questions about the continuity of the EU's conditionality on Turkey. Further, it critically explores the newly created concept of "reversed conditionality". This article claims that the concept of "reversed conditionality" is a reductionist approach to EU conditionality mechanism to a shift in bargaining power in EU-Turkey relations.
- Subjects
TURKEY; UNDOCUMENTED immigrants; EUROPEAN Union; COOPERATION; CONDITIONALITY (International relations); INTERNATIONAL cooperation; BARGAINING power; MIGRATIONS of nations
- Publication
OASIS - Observatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales, 2024, Issue 39, p123
- ISSN
1657-7558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18601/16577558.n39.08