Updating the Debate on Turkey in France, on the 2009 European Elections’ Time

Summary:

Turkey has become a recurrent issue in France's domestic political debate, following the referendum campaign on the European Consti­tutional Treaty in spring 2005. While the question of Turkish EU membership is itself a point of discussion, evoking Turkey also tou­ches on other sensitive political issues in France. It elicits controversy that goes beyond the Left-Right cleavage. In this article, Alain Chenal studies the trend in the evolution of the debate during the campaign for the European elections in June 2009.

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