Working paper which evaluates different modes of economic cooperation between the EU and Turkey as well as Turkey’s potential involvement in partnerships outside of the EU is published in the FEUTURE Online Paper No.29 in the context of the program “The Future of EU – Turkey Relations: Maping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios (FEUTURE)”. With the […]
This paper positions energy as a critical component of international relations as it has been both a driving force for cooperation between nations as well as a source of conflict and war. It provides an overview of energy resources and trends in the Eastern Mediterranean, debating the influence of the tensions on the exploitation of […]
Migration was a critical policy area for Turkey even before Turkey became an official candidate country to the EU in 1999. Especially, with the end of the Cold War in the 1990s Turkey began to face the challenges of being a country of origin and destination, while acting as a transit country for documented and undocumented migration. Although […]
The aim of the paper is twofold. First, to outline the relationship of the EU and Turkey in the field of irregular migration and present the main drivers that underpin the relations from 1999 to 2017. While acknowledging that emphasis on irregular migration is given particularly post-2011, the paper argues that the dynamics characterising the relationship between Turkey […]
The Turkey-Russia-EU energy triangle is a relationship of interdependence and strategic compromise. However, Russian support for secessionism and erosion of state autonomy in the Caucasus and Eurasia has proven difficult to reconcile for western European states despite their energy dependence. Yet, Turkey has enjoyed an enhanced bilateral relationship with Russia, augmenting its position and relevance […]
Dr. Panagiota Manoli and Dr. Thanos Dokos – with the contibution of Dr. Angeliki Dimitriadi and Dr. Theodore Tsakiris – wrote a paper analysing the Greek perspective of relations between the EU and Turkey. Their report has been written in the framework of the FEUTURE research project. You can access it here.
European leaders have made a series of high-level visits to Turkey’s imposing presidential palace and issued statements strongly emphasizing Turkey’s role and Europe’s own inability to manage the refugee crisis. Such moves, in combination with the victory of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey’s November 1 parliamentary election, have succeeded in boosting Turkish […]
In mid-2015, a new era begins for Cyprus. Whilst the change of leadership in the Turkish Cypriot community monopolizes the news bulletins, the negotiations for the final solution of the Cyprus problem starts again from the point, at which they were suspended last year. With the control of the tension in the territorial waters of […]
