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This chapter provides an overview of Turkey-EU relations and Turkish politics since 1999, when Turkey received the status of an EU candidate country. It then zooms in on the topic of the overall volume: the evolution of minority rights in Turkey before this backdrop. It specifies an empirical focus on the three religious minorities of the Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and explains the rich amount and quality of original data that is analyzed in this book to draw conclusions about how the situations of these minority groups have evolved and what have been the roles of both the EU accession process and AKP government for these developments.
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Bardakci, M., Freyberg-Inan, A., Giesel, C., Leisse, O. (2017). Introduction. In: Religious Minorities in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-27026-9_1
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