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Perspektiva členství Turecka v EU: Kondicionalita EU a její vliv na vnitropolitický vývoj v zemi
Urbaníková, Marcela
Turkey has been part of the history of European integration for the past half century, and during this period the country has become a strong economic and strategic partner of EU as we know it today. The objective of the thesis is to evaluate the extent to which Turkey´s political environment has changed since 1999 when Turkey obtained candidate status. At the same time the thesis examines the effectiveness of EU enlargement conditionality for membership regards to its transformative power. In addition, the author attempts to evaluate a Turkey´s progression of fulfillment of the political criteria for accession. Fulfillment of these conditions is demonstrated on numerous particular events. The main attention is focused on current development in the country that strongly shakes the mutual political dialogue. The theoretical part contains the chapters about the enlargment policy, the criteria for accession focusing on the Copenhagen criteria of the political area, and the accession process itself. It also defines the key concepts related to enlargement policy - europeanization and conditionality. The analytical part deals with internal political developments and changes due to the EU influence as well as with the fulfilling the accession criteria. In the end, there is an attempt to evaluate the Turkey´s accession process, the impact of EU conditionality and the results achieved. The attention is also focused on the evaluation of the Turkey´s perspective of EU membership considering the current developments. Finally, possible alternative options of Turkey-EU relations are outlined.

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