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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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YENİ ORTADOĞU’DA TÜRKİYE’YE DÜŞEN PAY?
Başlık böyle atılınca, akıllara ister istemez siyasal iktidarın Ortadoğu’ya yönelik, gerek “ılımlı İslam”, gerekse de “Yeni Osmanlıcılık” akımlarıyla ifade edilen dış politika bakışı geliyor. Ne var ki söz konusu süreçle bağlantılı ama ısrarla görmezden
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PALESTINE, ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH STATE
While analyses have abounded examining the details of the “secret” talks and evaluating the positions of the negotiating parties in the Middle East peace process, prominent Israeli writers have intensified their efforts, on “Israel’s
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HISTORICAL EVENT IN TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR MEETING OF TWO LEADERS
The tension of the geopolitical landscape is going on in the Middle East. Political and ideological contradictions were joined by sectarian and ethnic conflicts. Under such circumstances, rapprochement in the Turk-Kurd relations is of
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INTERVIEW WITH MURAT PARILTI ON TURKEY’S SOFT POWER STRATEGY
Interview with Murat Parıltı (University of Northampton, Free Lance Researcher) Subject: TURKEY’S SOFT POWER STRATEGY Ali Koca: We witness profound changes when we analyze Turkish Foreign Policy between the years 1923-2013. As a matter of
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NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF IRAN
Ever since the initiation of nuclear research studies in Iran, this issue has been widely discussed. From its commencement by the assistance of US and Western states’ in late 1960s until 1979 Islamic Revolution,
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WAY OUT OF “IMPASSE”
At last, the world community sighed with relief. The world`s six great powers came to a preliminary agreement on the Iran nuclear program in the Swiss city of Geneva. Some experts labeled this as
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KING’S DILEMMA
The problematic democratic transitions taking place in the Middle Eastern and North African region after the Arab Spring have put a concept created by Samuel Huntington again on the top of academic vocabulary; “King’s
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İRAN’LA NÜKLEER ANLAŞMA?
Birleşmiş Millet Güvenlik Konseyi’nin 5 daimi üyesi olan Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, Rusya Federasyonu, Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti, İngiltere ve Fransa ile dünyanın en önemli ülkelerinden biri olan Almanya’dan oluşan P5+1 grubunun geçtiğimiz gün İran’la yaptıkları
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THE STRATEGIC CHOICE TO ANGER ALLIES
While most of us in America were sleeping, U.S. and Iranian officials were in Geneva the night of November 24 hammering out the latest agreement over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Americans waking up to the
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