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COULD TURKISH ELECTIONS BE POSTPONED?
Introduction Türkiye (Turkey) as a nation has been suffering since 6 February 2023, when two devastating earthquakes hit the country’s southeastern cities. Centered in Kahramanmaraş, the disasters demolished 10 Turkish cities including Kahramanmaraş, Hatay
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COUNTRIES HAVING SECULARISM AS A CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE
Introduction There is no questioning that countries implementing secularism and providing an equal approach to people from all religions or non-religious people have more chance to become democratic. There is no doubt that almost
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WHAT IS THE “EUROPEAN POLITICAL COMMUNITY” AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR TURKEY?
Introduction The way forward is clear: strengthen Turkey’s position within Europe, re-invigorate accession negotiations with the EU and steer Turkey away from ideas such as membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The European Political
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THE SCARS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM BALKAN WARS STILL EXIST
June 19 is marked each year as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, in order to raise awareness of the need to put an end the sexual violence in
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PUTIN: “WE DO NOT CLAIM THE ROLE OF A SUPERPOWER”
BILD: Mr President, 25 years ago, we celebrated the end of the Cold War. Now we have just had a year of more crises and wars than ever before. What went so horribly wrong
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THE EFFECT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ON CIVIL WARS
History tells us that most of the conflicts that followed the Second World War were interstates conflicts taken place in the third world countries as civil wars. Thousands of books, articles and studies were
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RESURRECTION OF NABUCCO PIPELINE: REAL OR MYTH?
The energy history of East-West energy corridor has not started with Nabucco, but Nabucco was considered a crown-jewel of the Southern Gas Corridor. Nabucco Consortium was established with Ankara Agreement in 2009 by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria,
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INTERVIEW WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF ALBANIA IN ANKARA MR. GENCI MUÇAJ
Me, H. Cigdem Yorgancioglu, as a producer and presenter of radio-tv diplomatic programs and as a diplomatic columnist, it’s my honor to be a guest of Ambassador of Albania in Ankara, Mr. Genci Muçaj, at
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RECOGNITION OF ENCLAVES BY RUSSIA: WHY SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA NOT NAGORNO-KARABAKH?
Russian Federation officially recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as an independent states on 29 August 2008 after abstaining itself from recognition of this Georgian enclaves for about 17 years. Suddenness of this decision surprised
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INTERNATIONAL LAW: AMNESIA OR DOUBLE STANDARDS?
Geopolitical situation around Ukraine has provoked many questions. Heads of state in the U.S. and Russia prefer to justify their positions by referring to the norms and principles of the international law. For some
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