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The period from 2002 to 2004 was a triumph for UK diplomacy and the political will of the AKP to change the course of Turkish politics. A substantial chunk of reform was implemented which enabled Turkey’s advocates within the EU to argue its case at Brussels in December 2004 — and rhetorically entrap its opponents. They had capitalized on the geostrategic imperatives which drove the enlargement case for eastern Europe and Turkey from 1997, which meant that at that time “there was a massive enthusiasm for enlargement and a willingness to see the glass as half full whereas it is now half empty”.1
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Martin, N. (2015). The Cyprus Effect. In: Security and the Turkey-EU Accession Process. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450036_6
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