Türkiye'nin Yunanistan'a Yönelik Dış Politikası: Avrupalılaşmadan Anti-Avrupalılaşmaya

Year 2021, Volume 8, Issue 2, 299 - 319, 30.07.2021

Erol KALKAN

https://doi.org/10.30626/tesamakademi.961923

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye'nin Yunanistan'a yönelik dış politikasını incelemektir. İlk olarak, 1999-2007 döneminde, geleneksel Türk dış politikasında güvenlik yönelimli bir politika ve söylemden diyalog ve diplomasi odaklı bir politika ve söyleme doğru bir kayma olduğu tartışılmaktadır. İkinci olarak, 2007 sonrası dönemde Avrupa Birliği’nin (AB) Türkiye’nin birliğe tam üyeliği ile ilgili artan isteksizliğinin Türk toplumunda AB’ye yönelik şüphe ve güvensizliği daha da artırdığı ve Türkiye’nin siyasetinde ve Yunanistan’a yönelik dış politikasında Avrupalılaşma sürecini zayıflattığı vurgulanmaktadır. Üçüncü olarak Yunanistan'a yönelik Türk dış politikasındaki değişimin yönünün ve boyutunun, Türkiye-AB ilişkilerinin kalitesi ve hızından doğrudan etkilendiği tartışılmaktadır. Bu olguları incelemek için çalışmada şu sorulara cevap aranmaktadır: 1999'dan sonra Türkiye'nin Yunanistan politikasında neler değişti? ve bu politika değişikliklerinde AB’nin rolü nedir? Çalışmada Börzel ve Risse’nin üç aşamalı Avrupalılaşma kuramı ile anti-Avrupalılaşma ve karşı davranış kavramlarından faydalanılmaktadır. Böylelikle Avrupalılaşma, anti-Avrupalılaşma ve Türkiye’nin Yunanistan politikası literatürüne katkı sunulması amaçlanmaktır.

Keywords

Avrupalılaşma, Anti-Avrupalılaşma, karşı davranış, Türkiye’nin Yunanistan politikası, Türkiye-AB ilişkileri

Turkish Foreign Policy Toward Greece: From Europeanization to De-Europeanization

Abstract

This paper aims to examine Turkey’s foreign policy toward Greece in the post-1999 era. It argues that the direction and changes in Turkish foreign policy toward Greece are impacted by the Turkey-EU relations. To examine these arguments, this study raises the following questions: What are the changes in Turkey’s Greece policy after 1999? and what role has the EU played in these policy changes? This research utilizes Börzel and Risse’s three-step Europeanisation framework and the de-Europeanisation and counter-conduct concepts to evaluate the Europeanisation and de-Europeanisation of Turkey’s Greece policy. By doing so, it contributes to the Europeanisation and the growing de-Europeanisation literature in general and the literature on Turkish foreign policy towards Greece in specific.

Keywords

Europeanization, De-Europeanization, Counter conduct, the EU-Turkey relations, Turkey’s Greece policy

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