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RELIABILITY AND RECOGNITION OF TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS & POLITICIANS
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”[1] Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, as a micro-state, has many advantages and disadvantages.
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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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Turkey has been knocking on Europe’s door for more than 50 years now. Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU) is known to be the longest and most tortuous process of EU membership negotiations.
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