AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ GENİŞLEMESİ’NDE KOŞULLULUK İLKESİ: BATI BALKANLAR VE TÜRKİYE

Abstract

This article discusses the implementation of the EU conditionality principle in the Western Balkans and Turkey. Conditionality is one of the most important  Dr. Öğretim Üyesi, Kırklareli Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Kırklareli, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5795-9982, E-posta: sezin.iba@klu.edu.tr  Arş. Gör. Dr., Kırklareli Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Kırklareli, ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-4846, E-posta: gulayse.ulgen@klu.edu.tr SEZİN İBA GÜRSOY GÜLAYŞE ÜLGEN TÜREDİ 364 BAED / JBRI, 9/2, (2020), 363-399. instruments of European Union enlargement policy. The paper will discuss first how this instrument was created by the Union; and then the specific instruments customised for Western Balkans within the context of the conditionality principle. Finally, bumpy graph of Turkey’s negotiation process will be examined in the context of EU’s conditionality principle. The article, within which two different examples of the implementation of EU Conditionality for candidate countries are compared, applies a qualitative methodology. Accordingly, the EU Conditionality is not an independent variable but is shaped according to the different circumstances of the countries. All in all, two different applications for the Western Balkans and Turkey are emerged.