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This paper sets out to draw on constructivism and its defining debates in order to approach the specific problematique of Turkey’s Europeanness and further integration into the institutional arrangements of the contemporary European society. It discusses that the ‘discourse of Europe’ has been shifting over time from a strict patrimonial approach to the more futurelooking convergence around the possibility of building a republican polity, from cultural identity to political identity. The paper attempts to expand on the constructive understanding of Europe as ‘cognitive structure’. The paper provides a background of particular historical itinerary through which Turkey has progressively processed to be part of Europe. However, it argues that Turkey has played, for a long time, the role of ‘other’ in the constitution of Europe and Europeanness. Based on the “discourse of Europe” the paper discusses that by negotiating the conditions of Turkey’s Europeanness and accession to the EU on the ground of a series of speech acts redefining Europe, European leaders finally felt bound by the illocutionary force of the promise they had been making.
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