Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: C, University of Bamberg, language: English, abstract: The refugee crisis has become one of the most significant issues of the EU which derived from noticeably rising instability and Syrian Civil War. It is seen that Turkey is a buffer country which protects Europe from the irregular migration and this circumstance had strengthened Turkey¿s importance. The paper has shown the alteration through Turkey ¿ the EU relations. This process has revitalized the EU-turkey relations since 2015 through the border security and migration management by fastening membership negotiations and the visa liberalization program. The paper has found that a willingness on turning the crisis into an opportunity for both side was the main trigger of the EU- Turkey Statement. Enhancing cooperation between them has a considerable positive impact as specified widely above.

This paper set out to determine that ¿Why is Turkey still compelling the EU-Turkey Statement in spite of that Turkey has to undertake such a heavy burden?¿ Therefore, it has been examined to examine Turkey¿s national interest in the framework of ¿rational institutionalism¿ by facilitating the cost-benefit calculations. Moreover, the encouragement from Turkish public ensures that the visa conditionality can enables the cooperation and avoids the compromises at the same time. Due to complicated and long-term relations between the EU and Turkey, the support regarding to EU accession had sharply declined. Hence, lighting visa regime which is perceived one of the discriminatory policies of the EU that has extremely risen public opinion support.

Some enforcements have been done by Turkey particularly, after the coup attempt in 2016 and following the state of emergency that has been criticized as an undemocratic by the Council. PACE has made a decision succeed about re-open monitoring procedure in respect of Turkey on 25th April 2017 (Rep. of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2017). In the following, European parliament general assembly has ratified the recommendation letter in respect of suspending membership negotiations with Turkey (Press Release Regarding the European Parliament¿s Resolution Regarding 2018 Report on Turkey 2019). Meanwhile, the conjuncture where rising ¿populism and xenophobia: in the EU member countries even so rising ¿Eurosceptic discourse¿ seem that far away the visa-free regime.