The European Union and Turkish accession : human rights and the Kurds /

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The EU accession process will shape Turkey's future and, in particular, its potential to become a pluralist, democratic state with respect for international human rights. In this timely survey, Kerim Yildiz and Mark Muller explain and analyze the process of accession focusing primarily on these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Yildiz, Kerim (Autor), Müller, Mark (Autor)
Otros Autores: Chomsky, Noam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Pluto Press, 2008.
Temas:
European Union.
European Union > Membership.
Union européenne > Adhésion.
European Union
Kurds > Turkey.
Kurds > Political activity > Turkey.
Human rights > Turkey.
HISTORY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Human rights
Kurds
Kurds > Political activity
Membership requirements
Turkey
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • -- I. Background. 1. The Kurds
  • - 2. The Turkish Republic
  • -- II. Turkey and the EU. 1. The route to accession
  • - 2. The opening of formal EU accession negotiations
  • - 3. Turkey's EU bid in a wider political context
  • - 4. Fulfillment of the Copenhagen Criteria for EU accession? III. Civil and Political Rights in Turkey. 1. The pro-EU reform process
  • - 2. Torture and 'zero tolerance'
  • - 3. Freedom of expression, publishing and the media
  • - 4. Civil society in Turkey
  • - 5. Political participation
  • -- IV. Cultural and Minority Rights in Turkey. 1. Cultural and linguistic rights
  • - 2. EU reforms
  • - 3. Minority rights standards in Turkey
  • - 4. Definitional issues
  • - 5. Substantive rights
  • -- V. Conflict in the Southeast. 1. Origins and development of the conflict
  • - 2. Resolving the conflict
  • - 3. The EU and the conflict in the southeast
  • - 4. The Kurdish question from a Turkish perspective
  • -- VI. The International Dimension to the conflict. 1. Turkey and Kurdistan, Iraq
  • - 2. Turkish military activity in Kurdistan, Iraq
  • - 3. Turkey, Iran and Syria
  • -- VII. The Military and the Islamist Movement. 1. Secularists vs Islamists
  • - 2. The Islamist movement, human rights and the Kurdish issue
  • - 3. The AKP, Turkey and the Military
  • -- VIII. Internal Displacement. 1. Background to displacement
  • - 2. Conditions and difficulties faced by internally displaced persons
  • - 3. The government response to displacement
  • - 4. State impediments to return
  • - 5. The international response to internal displacement in Turkey
  • -- IX. The EU and the Kurds. 1. Europe's role in solving the Kurdish question
  • - 2. Assessment of the EU's approach
  • - 3. The Kurdish perspective on EU accession
  • -- X. The Future of EU Accession. 1. Human Rights and EU Accession
  • - 2. Implications of the Accession Process.

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