The Not-So-European Public Opinion on Turkey.

This paper provides a comparative look at EU citizens' attitudes towards Turkey-EU relations and examines the impacts of values, threats and transatlantic foreign policy orientations on Turkey's 'belated' accession to the EU. Do concerns over Turkish membership reflect themselves in the form of Turco-scepticism or do they fade away as Turco-phile attitudes prevail? In a multitude of dimensions, these two competing attitudes are present in Europe at the mass and elite levels due to several considerations such as (i) value compatibility (ii) threat perceptions (iii) cost-benefits calculus of the enlargement (iv) Atlanticist vs. Europeanist foreign policy preferences. This paper builds a comparative quantitative insight into public perceptions as the 'essential domino' of foreign policy decisions in democracies towards the EU's most intransigent enlargement case and process. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]