Turkiye's European Union Accession as a Tool to Legitimise the Brexit Decision: An Analysis of Pro-Leave Actors' Discourses

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Sepli A., Kocer G.

ANKARA AVRUPA CALISMALARI DERGISI-ANKARA REVIEW OF EUROPEAN STUDIES, sa.1, ss.181-223, 2023 (ESCI)

• Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
• Basım Tarihi: 2023
• Dergi Adı: ANKARA AVRUPA CALISMALARI DERGISI-ANKARA REVIEW OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
• Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
• Sayfa Sayıları: ss.181-223
• Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study investigates the Leave campaign in the European Union (EU) referendum and focuses Vote Leave and UKIP that emerged as pro-leave actors constructing the referendum debate. The sample of the study is the debates on Turkiye's accession to the EU. The primary aim of the study is to illuminate pro -leave actors' efforts to legitimise the Brexit decision by revealing the EU representations that these actors constructed through Eurosceptic discourses on Turkiye's accession. The study adopts the discourse-historical approach as a research method. The findings demonstrate that the prospect of Turkiye's membership was instrumentalised, and the EU and the continuation of the United Kingdom's EU membership were problematised in pro-leave discourses. This, in turn, paved the way for the Brexit decision by reproducing Euroscepticism discursively.