Turkey has a growing strategic role in its overlapping neighbourhood with the EU.ududRecent developments in the southern and eastern European neighbourhood have led to a new perception of the European Neighbourhood Policy. Turkey –on the one hand negotiating for EU membership, while, on the other, an important regional player in the common neighbourhood (the Caucasus and Mediterranean)– is increasingly being perceived as a crucial geopolitical partner for the EU. Turkey’s role in relation to the EU’s existing initiatives –such as the Union for the Mediterranean, the Eastern Partnership and the Black Sea Synergy– and its own Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform represents a challenge for the future shape of the European neighbourhood. This ARI outlines Turkey's relevance to a successful outcome of the EU’s initiatives, its role for political stability on the EU’s borders and the possibilities for cooperation or synergies between the Turkish and EU initiatives.
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机译：土耳其在与欧盟重叠的邻里中扮演着越来越重要的战略角色。 ud ud南欧和东欧邻里的最新发展导致人们对欧洲邻里政策有了新的认识。一方面，土耳其正在争取加入欧盟，另一方面，它是共同邻里（高加索地区和地中海地区）的重要区域参与者。人们越来越多地认为土耳其是欧盟的重要地缘政治伙伴。土耳其在欧盟现有举措（例如地中海联盟，东部伙伴关系和黑海协同效应）及其自身高加索稳定与合作平台方面的作用，对欧洲邻国的未来形态构成了挑战。该ARI概述了土耳其与欧盟倡议取得成功的相关性，土耳其在欧盟边界政治稳定中的作用以及土耳其与欧盟倡议之间进行合作或协同增效的可能性。
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