EUROPEAN UNION GLOBAL STRATEGY AND TURKEY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE TERM 2016-2021

The European Union (EU) has set a goal to be global power in 2003 with the announcement of Security Strategy. Nevertheless, this was stressed more decisively and obviously within 2016 EU Global comparison between these strategies illustrates change rhetoric foreign policy EU. With Strategy, initiated shape its own geopolitics, time free from US leadership, considering migration crisis especially recently security threats over Europe. This paper aims concentrate on status Turkey elaborate reasons for rise EU’s focus term 2021. argues that emphasis made role been limited by several areas such as migration, counterterrorism energy. Therefore, it is argued approach damages cooperative understanding parties scope candidacy process.