Ankara Avrupa Çalışmaları Dergisi Cilt:15, No:2 (Yıl: 2016), s. 189-194 KİTAP İNCELEMESİ – BOOK REVIEW TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION By Senem Aydın DÜZGİT and Nathalie TOCCİ 1 Filiz ÇOBAN  The book “Turkey and European Union” focuses on definitive assessments of different dimensions in Turkey-EU relations. Aydın-Duzgit and her co-author Tocci evaluate longstanding economic, societal, cultural and political connections between both sides by unpacking historical complexity of Turkey’s tortuous path in EU accession process. Originally, the authors offer three analytical lenses for a better understanding of this complexity. In the basis of these three perspectives, Turkey can be viewed as an enlargement country, an EU neighbour or a global partner. In addition to Turkey’s these specific roles to assess the “actorness” in the area of European politics, the relationship has been influenced by five thematic issues including economics, migration/mobility, security, democracy/human rights and culture/identity. Aydın-Duzgit and Tocci’s main argument is that these main pillars that make up the EU-Turkey relationships affect the process based on whether EU’s member states and their people see Turkey as an enlargement, neighbourhood or global country. In order to exhibit different European approaches towards Turkey’s bid for EU membership, their analysis aim to find out to what extent Europe’s political, economic and civil societies attribute weight to five relevant components. In this most recent book in the field, by making use of three analytical perspectives on five thematic issues, they provide a clearer picture of big political puzzle of Turkey-EU relations. In this context, the book is structured in ten chapters. From a historical perspective, the first one represents the ebbs and flows in the interaction 1 New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 256 pp., £29.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781137387301.  Assist Prof Dr, Department of International Relations, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.