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INTERVIEW WITH MS. MONIKA SCHMUTZ KIRGOZ
PREAMBLE Retrospectively, there is a country which is quite imperative for Turkey, that its cities are well known and frequently pronounced by Turkish students in primary school almost for a century due to the
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE MIDDLE EAST: TURKEY’S SILENT DEFEAT
It was the glorious “One Minute” reaction of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2009 at World Economic Forum in Davos that triggered the multinational “spirit of Islam” again in the Middle East. He
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?
The most optimistic scenarios foresaw that Turkey could become an EU member around the year 2014 if Turkey’s domestic reforms were ambitious enough and the EU would have had a clear political will to
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UPA WRITER AYŞE YARAR’S INTERVIEW FOR A MEXICAN WEBSITE
Taken from El Internacionalista.com 1. Thank you for accepting this interview. Could you tell us a little about your life, your studies and your stay in Mexico? Ayşe Yarar: You are welcome, it is
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’NİN TUNUS KONFERANSI
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi bölümü başkanı Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci, 12 Kasım 2013 tarihinde Tunus’ta Ramada Hotel’de FES’in düzenlediği Young Leaders konferansına
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A RESET
Turkey’s current situation proves that the AKP’s foreign policy approach has roundly failed. When they rose to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER GEZİ: ANOTHER HALT OR AN INCENTIVE TO REVIVE TURKEY’S MORIBUND ACCESSION PROCESS?
In my previous article I was to a certain extent optimistic over a positive breakthrough in EU-Turkey relations in 2013. However, the way Prime Minister Erdoğan and the AKP members (with a few exceptions)
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INTERVIEW WITH MEXICAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST PROFESSOR CARLOS MOREIRA
Ayşe Yarar: Mr. Moreira, firstly I want to thank you for accepting UPA’s interview proposal. Could you please give us some information about your academic life? Carlos Moreira: You are welcome; it is a
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