Günter Seufert
Ilke Toygür

EU-Turkey relations: Between democracy and transactionalism

SWP Podcast 2021/eP 05, 01.04.2021 Research Areas

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Following the European Council meeting last week which suggests a dual approach for Turkey-EU relations, William Noah Glucroft talks to Günter Seufert and Ilke Toygür about the most important issues that are confronting the EU-Turkey relations with a special focus on the next steps.

Dr. Günter Seufert is Head of the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at SWP. Dr. Ilke Toygür is an Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid and CATS Fellow at SWP Berlin.

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