International Conference on Eurasian Economies
5-7 October 2017 – Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN
Paper detail
Paper ID : 2023
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : International Trade and Globalization
Presenter: Ph.D. candidate Ömer Faruk Karaman
Session : 1C Bölgesel Çalışmalar
The Impacts of the Eurasian Economic Union on the Relations Between Kyrgyzstan and Turkey
Avrasya Ekonomik Birliği’nin Kırgızistan ile Türkiye İlişkilerine Etkileri
- Ph.D. candidate Ömer Faruk Karaman (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Kyrgyzstan)
Abstract
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian Federation, trying to develop economic and political relations with various countries, in order to maintain its influence in the newly independent states, is in charge of creating an organization called the Eurasian Economic Union. In this context, the Eurasian Economic Union, which started its activity in January 2015, is an attempt to economic integration among Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. The Turkish foreign policy has changed in multi-vector direction. Thus, the last events in Eurasia began to attract the attention of Turkey. In this paper, focusing on the perceptions of Eurasia by Russia and Turkey, examines the influence of the Eurasian Economic Union on relations between Turkey and Kyrgyzstan. In this context, Kyrgyzstan's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union, in a political sense, may negatively affect relations between two countries and reduce the presence of Turkey in Kyrgyzstan. Also, because of the expected increasing in customs duties and hence rise in prices for goods imported from Turkey, the decline in demand for Turkish goods is expected. Nevertheless, the possibility of signing free trade agreements between member states, including Kyrgyzstan and Turkey in the long term, will change the political, commercial and cultural relations between two countries in a positive way.
JEL codes:
Karaman, Ömer Faruk (2017). "The Impacts of the Eurasian Economic Union on the Relations Between Kyrgyzstan and Turkey" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2017, pp.260-264, Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C09.02023
Session 1C: Bölgesel Çalışmalar
