A new IKV publication on Türkiye-EU Deal of 18 March 2016 prepared within the scope of CATS Network research project is released.

The CATS Network research project titled “A New Era in EU-Turkey Cooperation- The Syrian Crisis and EU-Turkey Deal of 18 March 2016: The Perceptions of European and Turkish Decision Makers” studies the 5-year experience of the cooperation between Turkey and the EU within the process called “refugee crisis” about its structural and motivational aspects, as well as its positive and negative outcomes. It also addresses how the 18 March 2016 Statement has impacted Turkey–EU relations more generally. At the centre of its analysis, the research aims to uncover whether the EU-Turkey Deal of 18 March 2016 has improved the relations and brought the parties closer together or made the existing problems more complicated and caused the relations to fall further apart. This publication is prepared by Prof. M. Murat Erdoğan, Dr. Nihal Eminolu, Laura Batalla Adam, Dr. K. Onur Unutulmaz and Friedrich Püttmann.

The PDF version of the publication can be found here.

Please find the executive summary of the publication here.

Title of the publication: A New Era in EU-Turkey Cooperation-The Syrian Crisis and EU-Turkey Deal of 18 March 2016: The Perceptions of European and Turkish Decision Makers

ISBN: 978-605-7756-18-3

Publication no: 323

Date of publication: April 2023