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ERBIL NOTES (MAY 2017)
I participated into an international conference (AEC17 – Administration and Economics Conference 2017) organized by Lebanese French University and Erbil Polytechnic University last week and had chance to visit Erbil city once again for
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’DEN YENİ KİTAP: “TURKEY AND THE WORLD”
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Beykent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi (İngilizce) bölümü öğretim üyesi Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci’nin Türkiye politikası, Türk Dış Politikası ve dünya siyaseti üzerine İngilizce makalelerinin
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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM APPROVED IN TURKEY
Turkish people voted slightly (% 51,41 “yes” votes against % 48,59 “no” votes) in favor of the constitutional changes proposed by the governing Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP-AKP) and Turkish nationalist Nationalist Action
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TURKEY: NO LONGER A DEMOCRACY
Pro-Kurdish parliamentarians being dragged into police cars[1], assassination attempts[2] and police raids[3] are taking place towards critical journalists, death-penalty is prepared to be introduced to the legal system[4] and a purge against moderate Islamist
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RETHINKING TURKEY’S KURDISH QUESTION
After the removal of immunity of parliamentarians, most of the deputies from pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) are now faced with the risk of losing their seats in the parliament in Turkey. This decision
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BINALI YILDIRIM WILL BECOME TURKEY’S NEW PRIME MINISTER
After the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (JDP) organized its extraordinary congress on May 22, 2016. The congress was organized -similar to previous ones- with only one
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TURKEY WILL HAVE A PM CHANGE ON MAY 22, 2016
Turkey’s Prime Minister Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu recently resigned from his post after 20 months in office.[1] Although the decision was presented as his own choice, there are rumors that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan forced
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NATIONALIST ACTION PARTY’S CONGRESS CONTROVERSY
Founded in 1969 by former Colonel of Turkish Armed Forces, Alparslan Türkeş, Nationalist Action Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi – MHP)[1] has always been an important actor in Turkish political life. Although the party has
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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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RPP WILL HOLD ITS ORDINARY CONGRESS ON 16-17 JANUARY 2016
Turkey’s pro-secular main opposition party, CHP (Republican People’s Party – RPP) will hold its ordinary congress on 16-17 January 2016 in Ankara. The congress will witness a leadership race between the current chair of
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