Reluctant Europeans? European Integration and the Transformation of Turkish Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID8020735
AuthorsSpyros Sofo (0000-0002-6943-083X, corresponding author), Spyros A Sofos
Year2000
Volume5
Issue2
Pages243-260
Publication date2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth European Society & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-8746 • E-ISSN: 1743-9612
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13608740508539610
OpenAlexW2157706651
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

Turkey is in search of a new social contract premised on an extensive revision of the country's Kemalist inheritance and incorporating the economic and political transformations set in motion in the Ozal period. This is not a straightforward task for the reformist forces in Turkish politics and civil society; the imperative and nature of reform are the object of contestation between those factions within the bureaucratic and military elite that have associated their social supremacy with the maintenance of the Kemalist tradition and its preferred variant of modernization, and the emerging reformist forces which rally around the demand for Europeanization. In this internal struggle between the established model of authoritarian modernization and a more open modernist conception of political liberalism, the prospect of a deepened relationship between the EU and Turkey has played a significant role in shaping Turkish politics during the past two decades

Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformation (genetics · Turkish · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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