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To answer what the European identity exactly means is not simple. Apart from the fact that the term ‘Europeaness’ is as such a controversial concept, we can start from the assumption that it is a constructed term which has gradually evolved in the history of Europe. This article is engaged in a study of this awkward question of European identity, by which the process of the enlargement of the EU presents an analytical frame. In this article were firstly the whole process of the enlargement of the EU up to now, the legal basis of the enlargement, and the meaning of the enlargement in the politics of the EU etc. examined. Then, I have attempted to explain the relationship between the EU and Turkey in which the joining of Turkey to the EU was a central theme. It seems that the ‘Europeans’have until now considered the ‘Muslims’ not to have association to Europe. Whether the EU of the Christian states will accept or reject the Islamic Turkey as a member of her community is the question that shall be answered in the near future. The decision on it will show whether an important part of the future identity of Europe shall be newly formed or not.
