THE ETHNIC, NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY OF THE TURKISH MINORITY IN BULGARIA
BULGARİSTAN'DA TÜRK AZINLIĞIN ETNİK, ULUSAL VE AVRUPA KİMLİĞİ

Author : Gülfer TUNALI
Number of pages : 388-408

Abstract

The collective identity of the EU citizens has emerged as an essential question when the European Union started to evolve into a political community. This study analyzes identity relations of the Turkish minority after Bulgaria’s accession to the EU, whose ethnic identity conflicts with the national identity constructed during the formation of the Bulgarian nation-state. The study provides a part of the findings obtained from the in-depth interviews and the questionnaires conducted between 2011-2013. In this study, self-categorization relations that are one component of the collective identity at the i

Keywords

Turkish minority in Bulgaria, collective

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