Opportunities missed: Turkey-EU accession since 2005 [Editorial]

Introduction
This special issue is a prime example of the difficulties faced in writing about moving targets. When the idea was conceived in 2014, the Turkey-EU accession process seemed to be stuck in a post-Gezi Park rut and, as David Phinnemore and Erhan Icener say in their contribution to this special issue, not only had progress been ‘glacial’ since 2005 the discourse surrounding it was dominated by words such as ‘impasse’ and ‘stalemate’ (Citation2016). At that time, as co-editors, we were seeking to explain how the impasse had happened and why it was a missed opportunity for both Turkey and the European Union.
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