From Customs Union to Chapter Negotiations: The Turkish Economy on the Path to EU Membership

Edited by Yannis A. Stivachtis

ISBN: 978-960-6672-04-0, 282 pages

First published in 2010 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
About Atiner
About the Editor
Acknowledgments
EU-Turkey Economic Relations: An Introduction Yannis A. Stivachtis		1
1.	In View of EU Membership: European Union-Turkish Economic Relations, 1995-2008 Megan LeAnna Byrne and Yannis A. Stivachtis	11
2.	The Economic Implications of Turkey’s Integration into the European Union: Implications for the European Union Fadi Hakura	23
3.	The Economic Implications of Turkey’s Integration into the European Union: An Analysis in Terms of Turkey Irfan Kalayci	39
4.	Turkey’s Fulfilment of the EU Economic Criteria for Membership Megan LeAnna Byrne and Yannis A. Stivachtis	65
5.	The Current State of Turkish Economy: Comparison with Bulgaria and Romania Emel G. Oktay and Erhan Türbedar	79
6.	Turkey’s Progress in Telecommunication Sector: Towards EU Accession Ayhan Tözer and Özgür Fatih Akpinar	97
7.	Agricultural Transformation in Turkey: Implications of Turkey’s Integration into the EU Mahmut Tekçe	119
8.	EU-Turkish Enlargement Negotiations and Implications for Female Labor Force in Turkey Aziz Kutlar, Faruk Kocaçik and Feray Erselcan	139
9.	Population Accumulation and Regional Development in Turkey: Implications for the EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations Derya Altunbaş	163
10.	New Organizational Challenges in Turkey and EU Negotiations Bariş Baraz and Ayhan Tözer	173
11.	Rural Tourism and Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: Implications for Eco-Agro Tourism Farm Business in Turkey Evrim Çeltek	185
12.	Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: The Case of Turkey Arzu Akkoyunlu-Wigley, Sevinç Mihci and Hakan Mihci	209
13.	An Empirical Analysis based on Knowledge Production Function for OECD Countries including Turkey Cengiz Cihan and Dilip Dutta	223
14.	Austrian-Turkish Business Relations: Why Way behind Central and Eastern European Level? Peter Krumhuber and Peter r. Haiss	249
15.	Corruption in Turkey from a Different Perspective Figen Dalyan	263