Conclusion

This concluding chapter first summarizes the aims, research question, theoretical assumptions, and methodological framework of the book, as well as the organization of the analysis and historical background and the literature review on the perception of Turkish identity in the EP. Secondly, it highlights the key findings drawn from the analysis based on the discourse topics under which different representations of the Turkish identity and, in turn, European identity are discursively constructed in the discourses of MEPs. The chapter also underscores that the analysis, also comparing MEPs’ discourses in the 1997–2007 period with those in the 2007–2015 period, discloses the representations, which can be evaluated in three different groups: continuing images from 1997 to 2007, new images emerging in the 2007–2015 period, and images undergoing some changes and additions in the 2007–2015 period. Thirdly and finally, it concludes by underlining the characteristics of the EP discourses on Türkiye, identifying the devices for the discursive strategies of the DHA in the analysis, addressing the divergence from and convergence with the representations in the 1997–2007 period, and, thus, measuring the main argument of the book.