Methodological Appendix for FEUTURE Online Paper No. 28 "Narratives of a Contested Relationship: Unravelling the Debates in the EU and Turkey"

This is the methodological appendix for the narrative analysis conducted by the researchers from the University of Cologne (UzK) and Middle East Technical University (METU) within the scope of the ongoing research project, which is entitled “The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios” (FEUTURE) and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The appendix is designed to provide comprehensive information on the operationalization of the qualitative research that was carried out for the FEUTURE Online Paper No. 28 “Narratives of a Contested Relationship: Unravelling the Debates in the EU and Turkey” published in February 2019.

The following sections present details on the selected actors, data sampling and collection, codebook and variables, and overall time span of the research.