This article analyzes Kingdom of Morocco’s and Turkey’s full membership application processes to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1987 from an identity perspective. Construction of both Morocco’s and Turkey’s European-ness are being analyzed following the postcolonial and modernization theories aspects of poststructuralist approach by taking official discourses of the political leaders in the two states at the time of application into account. In the conventional narratives of the establishment of their modern states, Morocco perceived Europe as the other in terms of its being former colonizer whereas Turkey perceived Europe as the other in terms of its being threat to its national unity before the establishment of the Republic in 1923. In spite of this, two states tried to add European-ness onto their national identity with their application to the EEC in 1987 by being obliged to demonstrate not why European but how European they were. This obligation was shaped around the postcolonial theory for Morocco’s case, whereas it was around the modernization one for Turkey. The article, then, takes the official discourses on European-ness by the Moroccan and Turkish leaders which were taken as dynamic processes. Later, it analyzes them in the light of postcolonial nationalism for Morocco and modernization theory for Turkey. In this respect, the article demonstrates how Europe and European-ness that was once regarded as the “other” by Turkey and Morocco were tried to add in Moroccan and Turkish national identities in the path to become a full member to the EEC.
Morocco, Turkey, European Economic Community, identity, Europeanness
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Social |
Published Date | 2019/2 |
Journal Section | Makaleler |
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Publication Date | December 30, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019, Volume 6, Issue 2 |
Bibtex | @research article { tocd607538, journal = {Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi}, issn = {2147-7523}, eissn = {2630-5631}, address = {}, publisher = {Sakarya University}, year = {2019}, volume = {6}, number = {2}, pages = {43 - 70}, doi = {10.26513/tocd.607538}, title = {European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership}, key = {cite}, author = {İpek, Volkan and Türkeş-kılıç, Selin} } |
APA | İpek, V. & Türkeş-kılıç, S. (2019). European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership . Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi , 6 (2) , 43-70 . DOI: 10.26513/tocd.607538 |
MLA | İpek, V. , Türkeş-kılıç, S. "European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership" . Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi 6 (2019 ): 43-70 <https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tocd/issue/48810/607538> |
Chicago | İpek, V. , Türkeş-kılıç, S. "European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership". Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi 6 (2019 ): 43-70 |
RIS | TY - JOUR T1 - European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership AU - Volkan İpek , Selin Türkeş-kılıç Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 N1 - doi: 10.26513/tocd.607538 DO - 10.26513/tocd.607538 T2 - Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi JF - Journal JO - JOR SP - 43 EP - 70 VL - 6 IS - 2 SN - 2147-7523-2630-5631 M3 - doi: 10.26513/tocd.607538 UR - https://doi.org/10.26513/tocd.607538 Y2 - 2019 ER - |
EndNote | %0 Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership %A Volkan İpek , Selin Türkeş-kılıç %T European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership %D 2019 %J Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi %P 2147-7523-2630-5631 %V 6 %N 2 %R doi: 10.26513/tocd.607538 %U 10.26513/tocd.607538 |
ISNAD | İpek, Volkan , Türkeş-kılıç, Selin . "European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership". Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi 6 / 2 (December 2019): 43-70 . https://doi.org/10.26513/tocd.607538 |
AMA | İpek V. , Türkeş-kılıç S. European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership. Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2019; 6(2): 43-70. |
Vancouver | İpek V. , Türkeş-kılıç S. European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership. Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2019; 6(2): 43-70. |
IEEE | V. İpek and S. Türkeş-kılıç , "European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership", Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 43-70, Dec. 2019, doi:10.26513/tocd.607538 |