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2015 TURKISH GENERAL ELECTIONS
General elections in Turkey will be held on 7 June 2015 in order to elect the 550 members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM). The election will be the 24th general election in
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UPA YAZARLARI OZAN ÖRMECİ, FURKAN KAYA VE SİNA KISACIK, IRTBISCHET 2015 – 10. ULUSLARARASI KONGRESİ’NE KATILDILAR
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci ve UPA yazarları Furkan Kaya ve Sina Kısacık, 26-27 Mart 2015 tarihlerinde American Academic and Scientific Research Journal (AASRJ) tarafından Prof. Dr. Ata
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TURKEY TOWARDS PRESIDENTIALISM?
General elections that will take place in Turkey in June 2015 will be very critical not only because there is no pre-scheduled elections until 2019, but also it can create a very comfortable ground
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TURKEY’S KURDISH CHALLENGE
The transformation of “Arab Spring” into “Arab Winter” due to bloody civil war in Syria, military takeover in Egypt and instabilities in Libya not only decreased hopes for democracy in the Arab world, but
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“RENOVATION” IN TURKISH POLICY: WAYS OUT OF “UNCERTAINTY ZONES”
What changes the last presidential election in Turkey will bring about in the foreign policy has become a subject of serious discussion. Experts approach to this issue from two perspectives – domestic problems and
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SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH GÜNEY YILDIZ, JOURNALIST AT BBC, ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF TURKEY
The Presidential Election of the Republic of Turkey has been resulted. We spoke to Güney YILDIZ, journalist at BBC, about the results and the new era of Turkey with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Dear Güney
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RPP’S EXTRAORDINARY CONGRESS TO BE HOLD ON 5-6 SEPTEMBER
Turkey’s pro-secular main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (RPP, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi – CHP in Turkish) will witness a leadership race between party’s current chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and parliamentary group leader Muharrem İnce in
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KEMALIST NATIONALISM AND TURKEY’S KURDISH QUESTION: ETHNICIZATION OF THE CIVIC IDENTITY
Introduction Kurdish question, Kurdish problem or the Kurdish opposition has always been a controversial issue in Turkey since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 both on national and international levels. The problem
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2014 TURKISH LOCAL ELECTIONS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Turkish people went to polls for municipal elections yesterday. Early results show that the governing Justice and Development Party (JDP) and its authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had their sixth consecutive victory.[1] Current results
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REALITIES BEHIND HISTORIC ERDOGAN-BARZANI MEETING
The Diyarbakir meeting of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani is significant in many aspects. Due to intra-Kurdish political divisions, the meeting — held as part of the [Kurdish] opening process
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