Readmission agreement and visa liberalization with the EU: understanding Turkey's Foreign Policy choices

Resumen:
T his article aims to make sense of Turkey¿s foreign policy choices in relation to adaptation to Common Migration Policy of the EU. First analysis through Europeanization models shows that cost and benefit calculations reveal the potential of domestic political dynamics as an influential factor for Turkey¿s consent to the high costs of a broad adaptation program in return of a vulnerable visa liberalization conditionality. This study attempts to explain how the internal dynamics (opportunity structures) and public opinion through the conditionality mechanism may affect the policy-makers and thereby the Turkish foreign policy decisions.