On Monday 28 November 2022 Prof. Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Sabancı University gave a guest lecture with the title: "Turkey-EU relations since Gezi Park". The guest lecture was held in the framework of the course "Attempting Transformation: the European Union and Southeastern Europe" taught by Associate Professor Susannah Verney.

Senem Aydın-Düzgit is Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center. Her main research interests include European foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, EU-Turkey relations, discourse studies and identity in international relations and particularly in European foreign policy. Her articles have been published in the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, Politics, and South European Society and Politics, among others. She is the co-author of Turkey and the European Union (Palgrave, 2015) and author of Constructions of European Identity (Palgrave, 2012). She is a fellow of the Young Academy of Europe and a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network. She also serves as the Associate Editor of South European Society and Politics.

Abstract
This lecture will focus on the main issues in the EU-Turkey relationship since the Gezi Park uprisings in 2013. It will discuss the main dynamics behind the recent stagnation in the relationship by focusing on factors relating to the political situation in Turkey, political developments in the EU, bilateral relations between Turkey and individual EU member states, Turkish and European public opinion and regional geopolitics.