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RELIABILITY AND RECOGNITION OF TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS & POLITICIANS

RELIABILITY AND RECOGNITION OF TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS & POLITICIANS

upa-admin Temmuz 30, 2013 0

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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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER GEZİ: ANOTHER HALT OR AN INCENTIVE TO REVIVE TURKEY’S MORIBUND ACCESSION PROCESS?

EU-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER GEZİ: ANOTHER HALT OR AN INCENTIVE TO REVIVE TURKEY’S MORIBUND ACCESSION PROCESS?

upa-admin Temmuz 15, 2013 0

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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TURKISH AND BULGARIAN ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION IN COMPARISON

TURKISH AND BULGARIAN ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION IN COMPARISON

upa-admin Ekim 28, 2012 1

Introduction In this paper, I will examine Turkey’s on-going accession process and Bulgarian accession process to EU, which was finalized with full Bulgarian membership to EU in 1 January 2007. In order to make

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