The issues of ethnicity, minorities, cultural rights – all taboos for the Turkish political and social context – emerged as one of the most discussed and hotly-debated concepts during the EU accession negotiations. The representatives of the official ideology resisted any attempts to change the hegemonic understanding of the nation- conceived as a homogeneous entity based on Turkishness. This paper attempts to locate the discussions surrounding the concept of Turkishness and minority rights in the recent years.
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