Saatçioğlu, Beken

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E-International Relations1
EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline1
European Politics and Society1
FEUTURE synthesis paper : the future of EU-Turkey relations: a dynamic association framework amidst conflictual cooperation1
Global Affairs1
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    Democracy, Identity, and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Hegemony Through Transformation
    (Routledge, 2015) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    book was more comparative, or merely that the title of the book was more indicative of the book’s British focus; thus the book would be more self-explanatory. However, my favorable impression of the book is that, while it primarily appeals to politics and IR instructors in the UK, who themselves use either the traditional or creative approaches to teaching politics and IR, its rich innovative approach will remain a long-standing success as a reference toolfor future studies.
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    De-Europeanisation in Turkey: the Case of the Rule of Law
    (Taylor & Francis, 2016) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    This article investigates the political dynamics shaping the post-2010 ‘de-Europeanisation’ of Turkey’s judicial system, particularly regarding judicial independence and rule of law. The analysis suggests the limits of conventional Europeanisation accounts emphasising causal factors such as European Union (EU) conditionality and the ‘lock-in effects’ of liberal reforms due to the benefits of EU accession. The article argues that the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP’s) bid for political hegemony resulted in the reversal of rule of law reforms. De-Europeanisation is discussed in terms of both legislative changes and the government’s observed discourse shift.
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    Empowering Autocrats: The EU’s Migration Partnerships with Turkey, Tunisia, and Egypt
    (2025) Saatçioğlu, Beken; Gümüşçü, Şebnem
    This paper studies the EU’s partnerships with Turkey, Tunisia, and Egypt to control illegal migration to Europe. The 2016 EU-Turkey refugee deal, the 2023 EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding, and the 2024 EU-Egypt Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership exhibit the EU’s policy of externalization of migration to countries of origin and transit in the EU’s neighborhood. The analysis assesses the repercussions of this externalization on the EU’s liberal democratic actorness on the world stage and the deepening autocratization in the Middle East and Turkey. Two preliminary findings are presented. First, the EU prefers transactionalism in the conduct of its foreign policy with the three countries. This is evident in the unconditional nature of these migration agreements and the sidestepping of the European Parliament as a critical actor in the process. Second, this transactionalism supports ongoing autocratization in all three countries by lifting external accountability and providing much-needed resources for these regimes: These autocratic regimes not only find greater leeway to contest the EU’s liberal democratic values (practically and discursively) but also resort to strategies of “refugee rentierism” in disregard for international refugee law. As such, the EU has enabled democratic breakdown in Turkey and Tunisia and autocratic deepening in Egypt.
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    The Eu’s Response To the Syrian Refugee Crisis: a Battleground Among Many Europes
    (Routledge, 2020) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    This article examines the European Union (EU)’s response to the 2015–2016 refugee crisis. Departing from the understanding that Europe is a contested phenomenon, it investigates how different – Thick, Thin, Parochial and Global – Europes influenced the EU’s management of the crisis culminating in the March 2016 EU-Turkey ‘refugee deal’. Two findings are advanced. First, European actors reacted differently to the EU’s initially attempted Thick Europe approach to the crisis, following their respective Europe conceptions. Second, faced with growing divisions, they ultimately united around a lowest common denominator solution represented by the refugee deal which illustrated Thin Europe at the expense of a more norm-based policy associated with Thick and Global Europes. The findings demonstrate the significance of embedding the various European reactions to the crisis within different Europe categories while showing that consensus was still possible to tackle an external problem.
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    Turkey and the European Union: Strategic Partnership in Action
    (2016) Saatçioğlu, Beken
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    Turkey and the Eu: Strategic Rapprochement in the Shadow of the Refugee Crisis
    (E-International Relations, 2016) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    The year 2015 closed with crucial developments formally boosting Turkey-EU relations in the wake of Europe’s refugee crisis. The EU-Turkey deal reached on 29 November 2015 raised Turkey’s strategic importance for the EU to a whole new level. The Turkish government was offered key economic and political incentives in exchange for its agreement to host the Syrian refugees in Turkey, while attending to their socio-economic needs and help stem the refugee flow to Europe. Among the perks were a generous financial aid package of 3 billion euros to support Turkey in this daunting task, the prospect of visa liberalization for Turkish citizens by the end of 2016 contingent on Turkey’s full implementation of the 2013 EU-Turkey readmission agreement and a “re-energized” EU-Turkey accession negotiations process.
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    EU-Turkey Relations: Towards a Transactional Future amid Conflictual Cooperation
    (Nomos, 2021) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    This chapter first summarises and synthesises the findings of the chapters in order to advance an overall scenario for the future of EU-Turkey relations, which is “conflictual cooperation”. It then elaborates on the scenario based on the drivers emanating from the chapters and the recent critical developments weighing on the relations. It concludes by reflecting on the future of the relations in light of their current transactional nature which has been growing since the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis.
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    The Eu’s “crises” and Implications for Differentiated Integration Between the Eu and Turkey
    (2017) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    The EU-Turkey relationship is in doldrums. Factors taking shape at various levels have imperiled Turkey's membership prospect to an unprecedented degree, with the result being that neither side believes in its realizability. This paper investigates how internal EU developments have recently come to bear on Turkey's EU accession process. It argues that the EU's many "crises" and possibility of disintegration brought to the fore by Brexit necessitate a realistic reconceptualization of the EU-Turkey partnership. First, the paper evaluates the EU's refugee crisis and the populist shockwaves it has triggered across Europe. While the management of the crisis boosted Turkey's value for the EU as a critical cooperation partner, anti-immigration and anti-EU rhetoric have gained pace among populist forces within several EU member-states as a reaction to refugee inflows. The paper assesses the implications of these multiple factors for the future shape of EU-Turkey relations. Second, it analyzes Brexit as a game-changer showing that EU membership can be set aside in favor of possibly new forms of interaction/cooperation with the EU. In this respect, the paper discusses the extent to which the evolving status of EU-Britain relationship can serve as a model for the strained EU-Turkey relations. It concludes that just like it is under way with Britain, Turkey-EU relations too can be negotiated as a mutually beneficial, functional partnership including, inter alia, a revitalized EU-Turkey customs union and cooperation in joint issue-areas such as migration.
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    Rising Illiberalism in the European Periphery and the Eu's Application of Membership Conditionality for Democratic Governance
    (Springer International Publishing, 2022) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    Illiberalism has recently risen both within the EU and in the European periphery following a global trend of democratic recession, which includes notable cases such as Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, among others. This has revived interest in the EU's role and capacity for promoting liberal democratic governance, as the principal international institution with claims to liberal democratic rule transfer. This chapter investigates how consistently the EU has used its principal policy instrument to tackle illiberalism, namely, membership conditionality. It focuses on EU-Turkey relations within the context of the 2015/2016 Syrian refugee crisis as a test case for the EU's ability and willingness to execute conditionality in times of crisis. Two arguments are made. First, as the EU externalised the crisis to Turkey, consistency of conditionality was compromised by European geostrategic interests that trumped the pursuit of democratic values vis-a-vis Turkey. Second, the strategic EU-Turkey partnership that ensued served to deepen Turkey's move away from the EU's democratic norms that lie at the heart of political conditionality. Consequently, unintended illiberal outcomes were fostered by the EU's transactional policy vis-a-vis Turkey. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
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    Ab'nin Mülteci Krizi: Normlar-çıkarlar Dikotomisi Üzerinden Ab'yi Yeniden Değerlendirmek
    (İktisadi Kalkınma Vakfı, 2017) Saatçioğlu, Beken
    2011 yılından beri devam etmekte olan Suriye iç savaşının en kritik sonuçlarından biri hiç şüphesiz yol açmış olduğu insani krizdir. Suriye halkının daha güvenli ve iyi bir yaşam için öncelikli olarak sınırdaş Türkiye topraklarına, zaman içinde ise artan biçimde Avrupa ülkelerine sığınma çabaları ile ortaya çıkan mülteci sorunu, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra Avrupa’nın en vahim insani krizi haline gelmiş, bundan dolayı da “Avrupa’nın mülteci krizi” olarak nitelendirilmiştir. 2015’in bahar aylarından itibaren Akdeniz ve Ege üzerinden Avrupa’ya sistematik mülteci akınının artışıyla derinleşen kriz, AB içinde çok ciddi bir kriz yönetimi ve koordinasyon sorununu da beraberinde getirmiştir. Avrupa Komisyonu ve Almanya önderliğinde, Avrupa ortak sığınma sisteminin reforme edilmesi ve mültecilerin belirli kotalar doğrultusunda mevcut Üye Devletlerde yeniden yerleştirilmesi esaslarına dayanarak geliştirilmeye çalışılan “Avrupa çözüm planı”, yerini zamanla krizin Türkiye gibi üçüncü ülkelere havale edilerek dışsallaştırılması yoluyla çözülmesi çabalarına bırakmıştır.