PRIVILEGED PARTNERSHIP: AS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO THE TURKEY'S EUROPEAN UNION MEMBERSHIP BID*

Türkiyenin ABye tam üyelik için 2006 Aralık ayında fiilen başlayan müzakere sü- recinde aradan geçen sekiz yıldan fazla zamana rağmen otuz beş müzakere faslından sadece on dört başlık açılmış olup müzakeresi tamamlanan fasıllardan ise sadece biri resmi olarak kapanmıştır. Türkiye ile aynı tarihte müzakerelere başlayan Hırvatistan ise 2013 yılının Temmuzunda müzakereleri tamamlayıp ABye tam üye olmuştur. Bu durum ABye üyeliğe ilişkin Türk toplumunun desteğinin azalmasına genelde de tam üyelik ihtimalinin azalmasına neden olmuştur. Gelinen bu noktada AB ile ilişkilerin tam üyelik dışında bir yolla sürdürülmesinin makul olup olmayacağı sorusuna cevap aranmalıdır. Bu maksadı taşıyan çalışma, Fransa ve Almanya gibi Türkiyenin üyeliğine katı bir şekilde karşı çıkan ülkeler tarafından müteaddit defalar dillendirilen imtiyazlı ortaklık konusunu ele almaktadır. Böyle bir modelin fiilen gerçekleştirilme ihtimali, bu konu altında tartışılan diğer modeller ve tasarlanan imtiyazlı ortaklık modelinin Türkiye ile ABnin çıkarlarını ne derecede bağdaştırılabileceği üzerinde durulmuştur

Türkiye nin Avrupa Birliği Üyeliği Talebine Alternatif Olarak: İmtiyazlı Ortaklık

Only fourteen chapters out of thirty-five chapters have been opened whereas only one chapter has been officially closed over more than eight years period of time in the accession negotiation process of Turkey with the EU which began in practice in December 2006. Although Croatia started to its accession negotiation process simultaneously with Turkey she became the member of the EU in July 2013 completing the accession process. These facts caused the decrease in the public support to the EU membership as well as serious decrease in the possibility of the full membership in general meaning. At this point, it needs to seek for an answer the question whether it is reasonable to sustain another form of the relation with the EU apart from the full membership. This paper, which aimed at this purpose, deals with the Privileged Partnership proposal which has been brought forward in the several occasions by the Member States such as France and Germany that are strictly against Turkey s membership. The applicability of such a model in practice, the other models under the title of this topic and what extend the proposed Privileged Partnership model may reconcile the interests of both parties, Turkey and the EU, have been addressed.

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