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Profile of the Programme

The MA program in European Union aims at providing the students from diverse backgrounds with
academic foundation in the European integration and Turkey's relations with the EU. To this end, the
program is designed to pursue two ends. The first one is to explore the achievements, dilemmas,
bottlenecks and shortcomings of the EU integration, which is often considered to be the most
successful international integration project ever. Second, the program is designed to study the
historical development and the current state of the EU-Turkey relations from an analytical perspective
to understand the seminal structures, events, dynamics and actors that have contributed to its progress,
or lack thereof. Ultimately, the emphasis of the program is to equip the students with the knowledge
and analytical skills to develop a well-informed vision of both the EU itself and Turkey's relations
with it.