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Following a post-structuralist theorising of identity in international relations which argues that identity is relationally and discursively constructed through foreign policy, this paper attempts to analyse the way in which the European Commission - a central actor in EU enlargement policy - discursively constructs European identit(ies) in its relations with Turkey, a long-standing candidate country with overwhelming controversy on its 'Europeanness'. The paper argues that EU enlargement policy can be treated as a form of foreign policy tool that discursively constructs the 'insiders' and the 'outsiders' through varying relationships with them, mainly via constructing the tenets of 'Europeanness'.The paper utilises the methodological tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA)in analysing the speeches and field interviews conducted with European Commission officials, in analysing the way in which they construct 'Europe' in relation to Turkish accession. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]