Yumul, Arus2024-07-182024-07-1820090260-10792321-5305https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079X09002000305https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7987The issues of ethnicity, minorities, cultural rights - all taboos for the Turkish political and social context - emerged as one of the most discussed and hotly-debated concepts during the EU accession negotiations. The representatives of the official ideology resisted any attempts to change the hegemonic understanding of the nation- conceived as a homogeneous entity based on Turkishness. This paper attempts to locate the discussions surrounding the concept of Turkishness and minority rights in the recent years.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessArticle2-s2.0-6614911103810.1177/02601079X090020003052813.NisQ426320N/AWOS:000447716100005