European Union Civil Society Policy and Turkey

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Civil Society and the EU Approach

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3. Establishing the Conceptual Framework

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4. Understanding EU Civil Society Policy in Turkey

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5. The Impact of EU Civil Society Policy in Turkey

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6. What Goes Wrong? — I

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7. What Goes Wrong? — II

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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Drawing on interviews with Civil Society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institutional environment in Turkey this book examines EU policies on Turkish Civil Society organizations and highlights the significant constraints and limited impacts of these policies.

• desegregation
• environment
• EU accession
• European Integration
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• Institution
• Integration
• liberty
• methods
• Nation
• organization
• policy
• reforms
• transformation
• european union politics

"Civil society is widely employed in the literature on democratization as well as in studies on the European Union's efforts to promote democracy. Strong empirical work, however, is often lacking. Özge Zihnioglu's work fills this gap in the important case of Turkey, assessing the efforts of the EU to develop and implement a 'civil society policy.' This work makes an important contribution to the growing body of work on Turkey and its efforts to meet the requirements to join the EU."

Paul Kubicek, Department of Political Science, Oakland University, USA

'Part of the complexity of Turkey-EU relations lies in the fact that government-to-government ties are but one dimension of this multifaceted relationship. Beyond official Brussels-Ankara ties, the EU has made engagement with civil society a cornerstone of its policy. In this book, Özge Zihnioglu meticulously explains how the EU has influenced Turkey's civil society scene, contributing to the empowerment of the third sector and thus to the overall democratization of the country.'

Nathalie Tocci, Europe and the Neighbourhood, Istituto Affari Internazionale, Italy

• İstanbul kültür University, Turkey

  Özge Zihnioğlu

Özge Zihnio?lu is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey. Zihnio?lu has researched on and worked with civil society organizations on Turkey's accession to the European Union and their role in Turkey's democratisation.

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