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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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INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR DANIEL PIPES
Daniel Pipes is President of the American think-tank, the Middle East Forum (http://www.meforum.org/), and publisher of its journal, the Middle East Quarterly. His writing focuses on the American foreign policy, the Middle East, Islam and Islamism. For details
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TURKEY: A DIFFICULT COUNTRY FOR JOURNALISTS
Which country jails the most journalists? You could easily think of a theocratic regime in Middle East, communist countries or a dictatorial-rule country as the correct answer but in fact according to many different
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A RESET
Turkey’s current situation proves that the AKP’s foreign policy approach has roundly failed. When they rose to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a
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ERGENEKON COUP PLOT TRIAL: REGIME CHANGE THROUGH LAW
The Ergenekon coup plot trial, which is considered as the most important legal battle in recent Turkish history, reached an end yesterday (05.08.2013) after Istanbul’s 13th High Criminal Court handed down severe punishments, including
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER GEZİ: ANOTHER HALT OR AN INCENTIVE TO REVIVE TURKEY’S MORIBUND ACCESSION PROCESS?
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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THE NEED FOR ‘THIRD WAY’ IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
Yesterday, Egyptian Army made a coup d’état and took the control of the country against the first democratically elected Islamist-oriented President Mohammed Morsi. What happened yesterday in Egypt shows once again that there is
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