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This study aims to analyze discursive constructions of the Turkey’s otherness with its relation to European identity in the European Parliament (EP). The social constructivist approach is employed in the study and European identity is proposed as a contested, hybrid and relatively exclusivist concept, which primarily shaped within the self/other nexus particularly in the enlargement process. The focus of the paper is the identification of hegemonic referential strategies and related metaphors emphasizing otherness of Turkey, without denying the inclusive discourses in the EP. In that sense, the research data consists of 1999-2012 EP plenary debates. The major findings are a) the tendency to present acquired characteristics as the innate differences alongside with the inherent differences; b) the majority of exclusive discourses possessed the right-wing MEPs and c) the exclusivist debates peaked 2004-09 term, the time of the launch of negotiations. |
