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KURDISTAN IS READY FOR INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM
What is expected and spoken finally happened and the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq and the leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Mr. Masoud Barzani, yesterday announced that an independence referendum
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım recently announced that the US-backed Raqqa Operation started on Friday night and the United States informed Turkey regarding the operation before it was initiated. Yıldırım also criticized American policy
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ERBIL NOTES (MAY 2017)
I participated into an international conference (AEC17 – Administration and Economics Conference 2017) organized by Lebanese French University and Erbil Polytechnic University last week and had chance to visit Erbil city once again for
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TURKISH SOLDIER IN SYRIA: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO HEAVY OFFENSIVE AGAINST TERRORISM
The Syrian crisis is full of surprises. Big nations of the world and the region actively interfere with the situation in that country. Truth be told, today Syria resembles a quagmire. This country has
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THE FAILED “TURKISH COUP ATTEMPT” AND TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS AFTERMATH: THE CHINESE PERSPECTIVE
Turkey’s geographical location is unique and important. It serves as a bridge between Europe and Asia along the shores of the Black and Mediterranean Seas. It is also neighbouring the Central Asia and Caucasus
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A NEW CHAPTER IN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
Turkish and international analysts express their views on the recent activism in Turkish foreign policy in last few days. With the Rome Consensus on June 27, 2016, Turkey and Israel signed a protocol to
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RETHINKING TURKEY’S KURDISH QUESTION
After the removal of immunity of parliamentarians, most of the deputies from pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) are now faced with the risk of losing their seats in the parliament in Turkey. This decision
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UPA YAZARLARI SPEHES-IZMIR 2016 ULUSLARARASI KONFERANSI’NDA BİLDİRİLERİNİ SUNDULAR
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci ve UPA yazarları Sina Kısacık ve Furkan Kaya, 22-23 Nisan 2016 tarihlerinde Ege Üniversitesi’nde düzenlenen ve Prof. Dr. Ata Atun’un organize ettiği SPEHES-İzmir 2016
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NATIONALIST ACTION PARTY’S CONGRESS CONTROVERSY
Founded in 1969 by former Colonel of Turkish Armed Forces, Alparslan Türkeş, Nationalist Action Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi – MHP)[1] has always been an important actor in Turkish political life. Although the party has
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INTERVIEW WITH MS. MONIKA SCHMUTZ KIRGOZ
PREAMBLE Retrospectively, there is a country which is quite imperative for Turkey, that its cities are well known and frequently pronounced by Turkish students in primary school almost for a century due to the
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