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EU and Turkey facing the same security-liberty trade-off
07/10/2005 By Senem Aydin
After the Helsinki Summit of December 1999 and the December 2004 Brussels Summit, we are once again approaching one of those so-called ‘turning points’ in Turkey-EU relations where all eyes turn to the ‘Turkey question” in Europe.
Last year’s dominant issue, the fulfilment of the Copenhagen political criteria, despite still being on the table, seems to have been replaced this time by the Cyprus impasse.
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Civil society Dialogue EU Foreign Policy European Union TurkeyRelated publications
Bio author: Senem Aydin
PhD candidate in Political Science at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. Her principle research interests are Turkey-EU relations and enlargement of the EU.
