Negotiations in trade in agriculture: A comparative analysis of the EU and Turkish positions in WTO Doha Round (original) (raw)

This study aims to examine the attitude which Turkey should adopt in terms of the EU compatibility in the WTO agriculture negotiations. In this context, it is tried to clarify Turkey's position in the WTO by considering ongoing open-ended membership negotiations and a possible EU membership. The focal point of the study is that, in agriculture negotiations in question, Turkey should act in line with her own interests in the former, and the EU should be followed step by step with a correct observation in the latter. The conclusion is that Turkey should follow necessary agricultural policies without ignoring these two points, and also by considering her own economic and social realities such as the shoestring budget, fundamental structural problems, high proportion of the total employment in agriculture sector, overpopulation in rural areas, lack of competitive capacity of the sector and low productivity of the agricultural activities. All these should be assessed in the framework of two interrelated three-level games in which the EU and Turkey take place. iii