Turkey’s membership process to the European Union has been a ‘long, narrow and uphill road’, as former Turkish Prime Minister, and later President, Turgut Özal once stated. This study analyses the representation of the European Union–Turkey negotiation process in the Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet and Hürriyet from 1959 to 2019 with the aim of understanding the changing meaning of ‘Europe’ and the ‘European Union’ in Turkish news discourse. There is comprehensive literature on the representation of Turkey’s membership process in the European press. This article aims to contribute to the field by assessing the representation of the same process from a different angle. For this purpose, Cumhuriyet and Hürriyet newspapers’ front page coverage of selected 10 key dates in the European Union–Turkey relations is analysed through critical discourse analysis.

正如前土耳其总理，后来土耳其总统特尔古特·厄扎尔（TurgutÖzal）所说，土耳其加入欧洲联盟的过程一直是一条“漫长，狭窄和艰难的道路”。这项研究分析了1959年至2019年土耳其报纸Cumhuriyet和Hürriyet中欧盟-土耳其谈判过程的代表，目的是了解土耳其新闻中“欧洲”和“欧洲联盟”的变化含义。关于欧洲新闻界中土耳其的入籍过程的代表，有全面的文献。本文旨在通过从不同角度评估同一过程的表示形式来为该领域做出贡献。为此，Cumhuriyet和Hürriyet 通过批判性话语分析，分析了报纸头版对欧盟与土耳其关系中选定的10个关键日期的报道。