Aydin-Duzgit, Senem2024-07-182024-07-1820151569-21591569-9862https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.1.08aydhttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8949This article focuses on the discourses of the main centre-right political party group (EPP-ED, EPP) in the European Parliament on Turkey's accession to the European Union. It utilises the analytical framework of the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis to mainly concentrate on the articulations of 'culture' and 'cultural identity' in the discussions over Turkish accession in official parliamentary debates and in-depth personal interviews with the members of this group. It is argued that a relational theorising of identity allows for analysis of the ways in which a cultural 'Europe' is articulated through current discussions on Turkey in the mainstream right-wing European Parliament discourse and thus reveals the cultural borders that are enacted with reference to Turkish membership within this group.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessTurkey-Eu RelationsCritical Discourse AnalysisDiscourse-Historical ApproachForeign PolicyİdentityArticle2-s2.0-8493036801110.1075/jlp.14.1.08ayd1741Q115414Q3WOS:000355135800008