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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,
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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
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UPA WRITER AYŞE YARAR’S INTERVIEW FOR A MEXICAN WEBSITE
Taken from El Internacionalista.com 1. Thank you for accepting this interview. Could you tell us a little about your life, your studies and your stay in Mexico? Ayşe Yarar: You are welcome, it is
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PARTIES BEYOND BORDERS AND THE TURKISH CASE
Societies have faced globalization with the same opportunity or threat components in different levels and various fields over the last decades. It can be seen that globalization affects many areas such as economic, social,
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ANALYSIS OF TURKEY’S SOFT POWER STRATEGY
Introduction Since the Turkish Republic was established, “Peace at home, peace in the world” principle has always constituted the basis of Turkish foreign policy originated by the founder of Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal
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RPP LEADER KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU’S WASHINGTON VISIT
Turkey’s main opposition party Republican People’s Party’s leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been making an official visit to Washington. Kılıçdaroğlu kicked off his program on Saturday. Kılıçdaroğlu, accompanied by the party’s deputy chairs – Faruk
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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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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’NİN TUNUS KONFERANSI
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi bölümü başkanı Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci, 12 Kasım 2013 tarihinde Tunus’ta Ramada Hotel’de FES’in düzenlediği Young Leaders konferansına
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‘SINK OR SWIM’: TIME FOR A TWO-WAY RE-ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EU
EU-Turkey relations were put on hold before the summer awaiting approval by European Union (EU) Member States to restart negotiations on the basis of European Commission’s annual Turkey progress report. For the first time
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50 YEARS OF EU-TURKEY RELATIONS: TALK THE TALK AND WALK THE WALK
12th September 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ankara Agreement, signed in 1963 in Ankara, hence its name. The agreement established an association between Turkey and the then European Economic Community (EEC) signaling
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