TURKEY-EU RELATIONS: A GEOPOLITICAL EXAMINATION.

The EU, which is defined by its own officials as 'a superpower under construction', will have to deal with a series of economic, political-institutional, cultural-social and geopolitical challenges due to enlargement. The author of this paper argues that given the inevitable problems that lie ahead of the EU and Turkey's many xx, Turkey stands no chance of joining the EU in the next 20 years no matter what it does. The paper further explores the ideological-psychological, ethnic, political-institutional, geopolitical, historical and economic dimensions of the policies that can be pursued by the EU towards Turkey within this time span. In light of these arguments the author suggests that for harmonious relations with the EU, Turkey should cease to aim for full membership and manage its relations through a framework other than that of the EU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]