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Turkish accession to European Union is an important but controversial item on the agenda of the European Union. By focusing on the various domestic sources that drive Turkish politics, this comprehensive study of both classic and new topics supported by fresh, new insights fills a void in the current literature on Turkey--EU relations. This volume is a comprehensive, state of the art study of domestic politics and policies and their role in Turkey's EU accession. Contributions are obtained from established scholars, acknowledged for their expertise in their respective fields. The content is structured along issues, dynamics, actors and policies that drive Turkish politics and it provides an integrated assessment of the dynamics in Turkey-EU relations to general readers, students and specialists in EU Enlargement and Turkish politics alike. Original contributions to 'classic' topics such as the customs union, human rights, military, civil society, public and elite opinion, political parties and the Kurdish issue are made by assessing the domestic sources of recent developments during the negotiations period. In addition, 'new' topics are included that previously have not been covered or analyzed in volumes on Turkish-EU relations such as the Alevi issue, European Turks, corruption in Turkey, and Turkish parliamentary elite opinion on Turkey and the EU. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

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Gamze Avci is a lecturer at the University Collge Utrecht at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She received her MA, PhD, at the University of Georgia in the US and her MSC from the London School of Economics. Her areas of research interests are primarily Turkey's relationship with the European Union and on Turkish immigration to Western Europe. Her work has appeared in journals like European Foreign Affairs Review, European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of Migration and Law, Turkish Studies and International Migration. Ali Carkoglu is a professor of political science at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. at the State University of New York-Binghamton in 1994. His areas of research interest are comparative politics, voting behavior, public opinion and party politics in Turkey. His publications appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, South European Society and Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Studies and in edited volumes. His most recent book, co-authored with Ersin Kalaycioglu on conservatism in Turkey, is The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey (Palgrave, 2009).

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