foundation in 1923. With the shift of the foreign policy towards the European Union membership, Turkey pursued a two-way policy … toward minorities. First, Turkey transfers minority policies in responding to European Union pressures and demands. Turkey … presents an image of a responsible state in fulfilling the EU criteria. Second, Turkey has been trying to prevent significant …

Romania, the accession process helped transform key minority policies and improved the records whereas in Turkey, the … conditionality in minority related policies has become successful in Romania but not in Turkey through the application of the … paper attempts to test this model's assumptions and expectations within the cases of Romania and Turkey. The paper argues …