jdp »
INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR THOMAS MAROIS ON POLITICS AND FINANCE IN TURKEY
Ayşe Yarar: Dr. Marois, thank you very much for accepting our interview proposal. Could you please give us some information about your academic life and studies, especially about your book titled States, Banks and
Read More »
A SURPRISE NAME FOR TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU
Turkey will make its first elections for the post of President of the Republic by popular vote in August. Although he did not declare his candidacy, it is widely expected that Turkish Prime Minister
Read More »
“PODEMOS” AND 15-M: SOME REFLECTIONS ON TURKEY’S GEZI PARK PROTESTS
The overwhelming victory of eurosceptic and far-right parties in last week’s European Parliament elections made the headlines all over Europe. Spain is one of the few countries where no far-right party gained nationwide support.
Read More »
DEFINING AND STUDYING DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION
As Samuel Huntington analyzes in his famous book The Third Wave[1], starting from the mid 1970s, there has been a visible trend -using the old categorization- in second and third world countries to make
Read More »
TURKS IN BELGIUM: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF MARRIAGE
The first Turkish ‘guest workers’ arrived in Belgium fifty years ago, following a bilateral recruitment agreement signed between Turkey and Belgium. Turkish migrant workers were supposed to stay in the country for a short
Read More »
EGYPT, TURKEY AND IRAN: EXCHANGING ROLES IN A TUMULTUOUS MIDDLE EAST
After less than a year of exceptional Egyptian-Turkish rapprochement, the events of June 30, 2013 ruptured this relationship. Similarly, when Egyptian and Iranian statesmen began to decrease tensions and a thaw in relations resulted,
Read More »
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
Read More »
TURKISH-ISRAELI RAPPROCHEMENT?
Although Turkish-Israeli relations seem to have hit the bottom in the recent years[1] -especially after the “one minute”[2] and “low seat”[3] crises as well as the Mavi Marmara incident[4]-, in fact recent news in
Read More »
TURKEY AT THE CROSSROADS
Turkey at these days gives the impression of a country at the crossroads… Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasing authoritarianism and repressive policies[1], in addition to unsuccessful foreign policy adventures in the Middle East,
Read More »
EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?
The most optimistic scenarios foresaw that Turkey could become an EU member around the year 2014 if Turkey’s domestic reforms were ambitious enough and the EU would have had a clear political will to
Read More »
