Abstract
The forthcoming Customs Union (CU) upgrade negotiations have the potential to stabilize and deepen the ties between the European Union (EU) and Turkey and bring them to a stronger form of external differentiated integration. This article examines the viability of an EU–Turkey Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA), similar to that between Ukraine and the EU, as an alternative to the CU. The paper contends that a DCFTA would benefit both the EU and Turkey while it would de facto shift the contractual relations from accession conditionality to market access conditionality with potential political repercussions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 261-289 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Turkish Studies |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
This work was supported by Istanbul Teknik Universitesi: [Grant Number SGA-2019-41948]. The author is grateful to the editor and two anonymous referees for their valuable and constructive comments on the previous drafts. He also would like to extend his thanks to his two hardworking assistants, who have proven to be extremely useful during the research phase, Hasan Şahin and Burak Aslan.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi | SGA-2019-41948 |
Keywords
- customs union
- Differentiated integration
- European integration
- Turkey–EU relations
- Ukraine model
