Yilmaz, GozdeInternational Relations2024-07-052024-07-0520161360-87461743-961210.1080/13608746.2016.11481022-s2.0-84961644290https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2016.1148102https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/492Yilmaz, Gozde/0000-0003-3015-568XThe European Union (EU) has successfully been exercising its transformative power through both its enlargement and its neighbourhood policies for decades. Nonetheless, transformation towards a more European model of governance through Europeanisation is not a linear process, but a differentiated one. Adverse consequences for Europeanisation (i.e. de-Europeanisation) have often been neglected. The case of media freedom in Turkey, with a deteriorating trend across time, exemplifies such an outcome. This article explores media freedom in Turkey in the last decade. It argues that media reforms have been reversed over time in a de-Europeanising trend, with the EU losing its position as a reference point for reforms.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessmedia freedomEuropeanisationTurkeydemocracyDe-Europeanisationpress freedomArticleQ1Q1211147161WOS:00037284700000438