Различни светове на сигурност: Турция и Европейският съюз
Different Worlds of Security: Turkey and the European Union

Summary/Abstract: This essay will contend that both Turkey and the European Union have been rather oblivious to each other’s security concerns in the post-war period, and that eventually they have come to occupy different worlds of security—a clash of security cultures that manifested as debates on Turkey’s role in the evolving European security architecture during the 1990s. Although these debates have taken a different turn since the 1999 decision of the European Union to develop a capacity for autonomous action backed up by credible military force, the differences between the security cultures of Turkey and the European Union remain. Two inter-related arguments will be made. First, EU policy-makers continue to be concerned about Turkey as a source of ‘insecurity’ whereas Turkish policy-makers are wary of the potential repercussions meeting the EU’s demands could have on the country’s ‘national security.’ Second, such ‘insecurities’ are socially constructed through the production of the identities, interests and respective security cultures of Turkey and the European Union.

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