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DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY

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DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY

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Maintaining a constructive relationship and promoting dialogue and cooperation with Türkiye is crucial for European security. However, Türkiye has long been associated with a de-Europeanization trend that poses serious risks and difficulties for European security, affecting a number of areas including energy security, regional stability, migratory dynamics, and security cooperation. In this context, this article examines how Türkiye was perceived between 2007 and 2015 in the European Parliament (EP), during which time it exhibited some signs of de-Europeanization under the discursive construction of Europe as a security community. It also analyzes the extent to which MEPs’ articulations of Turkish and European identities in this period diverged from or converged with those in the period 1997-2007, which was generally a period of Turkish Europeanization within this conceptualization of Europe. For this purpose, the discourse-historical approach (DHA) is used to critically assess EP discourses on Türkiye from a social constructivist viewpoint, which holds that identities are socially constructed through the discourses of agents. Under the discursive construction of the European security community, this study reveals two opposing and prevalent representations of Türkiye as subtopics: Türkiye as a strategic partner and a security threat in the region. This article contends that, despite Türkiye’s de-Europeanization period, the positive images of Türkiye within the European security community outweigh the negative ones due to the country’s critical potential implications for European security, its crucial roles integrated with its NATO membership and its geostrategic importance.

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Sezgi Erdoğan * Bu kişi benim
0000-0003-2526-5710
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2024

Gönderilme Tarihi

19 Eylül 2023

Kabul Tarihi

5 Mayıs 2024

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2024 Cilt: 32 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Erdoğan, S. (2024). DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY. Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi, 32(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.29228/mjes.452
AMA
1.Erdoğan S. DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY. MJES. 2024;32(1):1-24. doi:10.29228/mjes.452
Chicago
Erdoğan, Sezgi. 2024. “DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY”. Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi 32 (1): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.29228/mjes.452.
EndNote
Erdoğan S (01 Haziran 2024) DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY. Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi 32 1 1–24.
IEEE
[1]S. Erdoğan, “DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY”, MJES, c. 32, sy 1, ss. 1–24, Haz. 2024, doi: 10.29228/mjes.452.
ISNAD
Erdoğan, Sezgi. “DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY”. Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi 32/1 (01 Haziran 2024): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.29228/mjes.452.
JAMA
1.Erdoğan S. DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY. MJES. 2024;32:1–24.
MLA
Erdoğan, Sezgi. “DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY”. Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi, c. 32, sy 1, Haziran 2024, ss. 1-24, doi:10.29228/mjes.452.
Vancouver
1.Sezgi Erdoğan. DISCOURSES ON TÜRKİYE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN 2007 AND 2015 WITHIN THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY. MJES. 01 Haziran 2024;32(1):1-24. doi:10.29228/mjes.452