After Copenhagen:
certainties and ambiguities in Turkey's European quest
A one-day conference to be held
at Kingston University, London
28 March 2003
The Copenhagen Summit in December 2002 has opened the way for Turkey and the
European Union to engage each other further and continue an integration process
that has been under way over the past decade or so.
For the EU the decision itself and debate that has surrounded it to date makes
clear that, in engaging with Turkey, the EU is embarking on a process of
defining itself and its future. What is at stake is a choice between a more
inclusive, tolerant and multicultural or an exclusive and insular union.
Turkey’s integration to the EU, on the other hand, is seen within the country
as the natural culmination of its long-standing association with, and
participation in European intergovernmental organizations and the extensive and
well established transnational links between the Turkish and other European
societies. By pursuing the path to integration Turkey also facing urgent
choices regarding the consolidation and deepening of its democracy and the
further strengthening of civil society.
This conference aims to contribute to the examination of the opportunities and
challenges that Turkey's EU candidacy entails with reference to the ongoing
reconfiguration of both Turkish politics, political culture and identity and EU
and, more broadly, 'European' political and cultural imaginaries.
Speakers include Asu Aksoy (Goldsmiths College, London) Erhan Dogan (Marmara
University, Istanbul), Serhat Guvenc (Istanbul Bilgi University), Soli Ozel
(Istanbul Bilgi University), Umut Ozkirimli (Istanbul Bilgi University), Bahar
Rumelili (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
To register, please contact Penny Tribe, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences,
Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK
tel. +44(0)20 85477884, fax +44(0)20 85477291, email: [log in to unmask]
For more information please contact, Spyros Sofos or Bilgen Sutcuoglu, European
Research Centre, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey KT1 2EE, UK
tel. +44(0)20 85472000 ext 2351, email: [log in to unmask] or
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Spyros A. Sofos
Senior Research Fellow
Director, MSc in International Conflict
Editor, Journal of Contemporary European Studies
European Research Centre
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE, UK
tel. +44(0)20 85472000 ext 2351
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