Turkey and the European Union pp 122-137 | Cite as
The Europeanization of Turkey’s Kurdish Question
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The EU’s interests in Turkey’s Kurdish question are motivated first and foremost by Turkey’s geostrategic importance to Europe. This explains European concerns about Turkey’s democracy and human rights, its internal stability and its foreign policy orientation, that is all issues influenced by the Kurdish question. The EU’s specific concern with Turkey’s Kurds has also been fed by the Kurdish Diaspora in Europe, by fears of rising immigration and by developments in neighbouring Iraq.
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- 3.European Commission, ‘2004 Regular Report on Turkey’s Progress towards Accession’, p. 167, 4. Abdullah Ocalan, ‘Declaration of the domestic solution to the Kurdish Question’, translated by the Kurdistan Information Centre (London: Mesopotamia Press, 1999), p. 18.Google Scholar
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