EU-Turkey relations [What Think Tanks are thinking]

Turkey’s ruling AKP party won the 7 June 2015 parliamentary election, but lost its majority in the house, opening the way for talks on a coalition government and plunging the country into uncertainty. The vote ended more than a decade of single-party rule in the EU candidate country and dealt a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions for a more powerful executive role. It is expected to have many implications, including on EU-Turkey relations.

This note offers links to commentaries, studies and reports from major international think tanks on recent developments in Turkey, and the relations between the EU and Turkey.

Written by Marcin Grajewski.

[Note a further set of think tank reports concerning EU-Turkey relations was published in the same series in April 2016]

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Turkish general election, June 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkish-general-election-june-2015/

ESO: Background information: Turkey’s ruling party set to lose majority http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkeys-ruling-party-set-to-lose-majority/

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