Notes franco-turques - Updating the Debate on Turkey in France, on the 2009 European Elections' Time Note franco-turque, No. 4, January 2011
Turkey has become a recurrent issue in France's domestic political debate, following the referendum campaign on the European Constitutional Treaty in spring 2005. While the question of Turkish EU membership is itself a point of discussion, evoking Turkey also touches on other sensitive political issues in France. It elicits controversy that goes beyond the Left-Right cleavage. In this article, Alain Chenal* studies the trend in the evolution of the debate during the campaign for the European elections in June 2009.
Dorothée Schmid, Head of the Contemporary Turkey Program at the IFRI
Alain Chenal, lawyer and lecturer at University of Paris-Ouest. He works on political issues of Mediterranean region and French foreign policy. Text translated by Nicholas Sowels.