2003 Cilt 4 Sayı 5

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    Leadership perspectives on Turkey’s accession to the European Union
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2003-12-01) Şimşek, Sefa
    Turkey’s full membership to the European Union is stipulated on the Copenhagen political criteria. These criteria, which have been broadly discussed by the Turkish public since 1999, centered around certain sensitivities such as the partial transfer of national sovereignty to the European Union, abolition of capital punishment, restoration of the National Security Council (MGK) and enhancing the rights of ethnic and cultural minorities. Political and public opinion leaders, political parties have developed quite diverse and conflicting perspectives on these sensitivities. In this study, a comparative analysis of these perspectives is given and their possible impact on Turkey’s European vision is estimated. The gravity of these counterveiling approaches, which swing between Europhilia and Euroclasm, seems to rest ultimately in Europe.