Turkey's EU membership debate within a historical conjuncture of European polycrisis

Elif Uzgören

Chapter 17 in Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, 2025, pp 256-272 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter aims to examine the struggle among social forces in Turkey regarding the EU membership perspective in the 2010s within a conjuncture of crises of liberalism. In the 2000s, the reform process was alive with the AKP regime adopting a pro-European stance. Contrarily, enlargement has been off the agenda in the 2010s both in Turkish politics and at the European level. Within such a conjuncture, how do Turkey's social forces underpinning the pro-membership project sustain their defence of EU membership? Is pro-membership still hegemonic in the 2010s? Can labour and social forces in the social factory of capitalism come up with an alternative project able to provide leadership in society? Has the former ‘yes, but’ stance of labour changed? The analysis relies on empirical data generated through semi-structured interviews with five categories of interviewee: representatives of capital, labour, political parties, state institutions and struggles around gender, ecology, human rights and migration.

Keywords: Class; Enlargement; Hegemony; Political economy; Polycrisis; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035347933
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