Governance and human rights in Turkey-EU relations

ABSTACT GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN TURKEY-EU RELATIONS Bedriye Nevrihan GÜRLEYÜK AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION May 2014 Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kemal BAYRAM Governance covers the process and institutions that citizens can convey their expediency, use their legal rights, fulfill their obligations and reduce the differences. The most important principles that EU identify, within the framework of efforts for the applicability of governence, are accountability, transparency, rule of law, equality, consistency and effectiveness. Due to the the common points of these principles determined as providing the preconditions for the development of democracy and in the EU process inTurkey coming to the agenda of governance and human rights, examining the concepts that are mentioned in EU-Turkey relations is the subject of the thesis. The emergence of the concept of governance, its advocates, critical edges, administrative, political and economic dimensions were briefly discussed and the dimensions of it in the EU-Turkey relations were examined in terms of human rights and democracy. The dimensions of the concepts mentioned in the UE-Turkey relations were discussed in terms of the EU candidacy process and especially in the perspective of the harmonization of the law. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the contemporary understanding of public administration that is performed by the reforms of classic public administration and its reflection on Turkey-EU relations in the perspective of the fundamental rights and freedoms. Keywords: Governance, European Union, Human Rights, Democracy,Turkey