European Union and Turkish migration policy reform: from accession to policy conditionality
European Union and Turkish migration policy reform: from accession to policy conditionality

Author(s): Birce Demiryontar
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: European Union; Turkish; migration policy
Summary/Abstract: Since Turkey became a candidate country in December 1999, the EU has been typically exerting influence on Turkish domestic policy change through accession conditionality. Since the mid-2000s, the main shortcoming of this reform framework has been its direct interconnection to the country’s accession process, while the country’s prospects for membership were losing their credibility. This loss of credibility in the country’s accession prospects has led to a halt in the EU induced policy change in various policy areas,especially in the ones where the related chapters of the accession negotiation framework were frozen by the EU, or by the individual member states.Despite being one of those policy areas, migration policy presents a deviation from this trend as commitment to the EU induced reform agenda continues despite the frozen status of the Chapter 24, Justice Freedom and Security.

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