Türkiye'nin Avrupa güvenliğine AB kriz yönetimi operasyonlarına katılmak yoluyla gelecekteki olası katkıları

This study mainly scrutinizes the existing arguments in the literature which claim that Turkey will have a large positive influence on the future of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and, hence, European security by making huge contributions to its crisis management missions, both civilian and military. This critical exploration of Turkey?s future possible contributions to European security through its participation in the ESDP missions (after its prospective full accession to the European Union - EU) is done by making use of the following three variables: (1) Turkey?s record of participation in the EU crisis management operations up to now and the reasons behind its level of involvement in them so far, (2) its motivations in taking part in these missions thus far, and (3) the compatibility of its foreign and security policies with that of the EU. The result of this exploration seems largely -albeit not totally- positive. As a result, it is argued that, even though Turkey?s future possible contributions to European security through its participation in the EU crisis management operations after its full accession to the EU will be substantial and incomparably larger than its contributions to them so far, these same contributions will never be immune from certain limits and, thus, never be ?unconditional? and ?solely for the sake of ESDP or European security?.Keywords: Turkey, European Union, ESDP, European security, EU crisis management operations, Common Foreign and Security Policy, peace operations, NATO, United Nations.