Samur, HakanSamur, HakanEkinci, Mehmet BehzatEkinci, Mehmet Behzat04.01. Department of Economics / İktisat Bölümü04.03. Department of Political Science and International Relations / Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü04. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences / İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi01. Mardin Artuklu University / Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi14.07.20192019-07-1614.07.20192019-07-1620181302-177Xhttps://dx.doi.org/10.25253/99.2018203.09https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/1254How people in member and candidate states are oriented toward the European Union - meaning, how well they know and how they evaluate the EU-is significant with regard to the sustainability of the EU. Because of the critical place of the Kurdish issue on the agenda of Turkey's accession process to the EU, the orientation of the Kurds toward the union has been of particular importance. This article, therefore, analyzes the Kurdish orientation toward the EU on the basis of comprehensive fieldwork conducted in the southeast of Turkey, where the majority of the country's Kurdish population is located.en10.25253/99.2018203.09info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessArticle2-s2.0-85051058478