ABSTRACT

Turkey’s neoliberalization efforts since 1980 have constituted the pretext for the new wave of EU reforms in the 2000s. But relations with the EU have become more conflictual since the AKP shifted towards neoliberal populism in the aftermath of the 2007–2008 world economic crisis. This article develops a more differentiated understanding of the present-day crisis between Turkey and the EU, addressing the structural limitations of Turkey’s nexus of authoritarian populism and neoliberal populism in the context of the current economic crisis.