Turkey’s EU candidacy was confirmed in the 1999 Helsinki European Council. As Finland prepares to take the responsibility for EU Presidency in July, this FIIA seminar looks at the current state of EU-Turkey relations. During the past two decades, a lot has changed both in the EU and in Turkey, as well as in the world around them. How should one assess current EU-Turkey relations in a wider geopolitical context? How does the EU-Turkey relationship affect, and is itself affected by, increasing multipolarity?
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Tom Kankkonen
Tom Kankkonen is a journalist who has worked with the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE since
2001. He has been a foreign news correspondent since 2012, and as such has covered Turkey and Syria,
travelling to both countries several times. His reporting from the region earned him the Journalist of
the year –prize in 2015. He has published a book on Turkey (Turkki – Eurooppaa ja Aasiaa) in 2005 and
a book on islam in Europe in 2008 (Islam Euroopassa). Kankkonen has an M.A. in Political Science from
Åbo Akademi.