Turkey has to reboot its Syria strategy mai 17, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turquie, Moyen Orient.Tags: Turkey, International Crisis Group, Hugh Pope, foreign policy, Syria, conflicts
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Daily Star (Lebanon) 17 May 2013 Français
Hugh Pope *
For much of the late 2000s, Turkey hoped that a booming economy, the prestige of combative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a burst of regional admiration for its successful mix of Muslim governance and democracy would reap it a harvest of Middle Eastern influence and profit. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey strains as refugee burden grows mai 16, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turquie, Moyen Orient.Tags: Turkey, Middle East, Syria, conflicts, refugees
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The Washington Post (USA) 16 May 2013, p. A1-A11
By Kevin Sullivan, Yayladagi, Turkey
Government seeks more aid, urges wealthy nations to take in desperate Syrians. Facing one of the world’s largest refugee crises in decades, Turkish officials are urgently appealing for international financial assistance and calling on wealthy nations (en savoir plus…)
Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey avril 30, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: border, conflicts, foreign policy, Hatay, International Crisis Group, Middle East, refugees, Syria, Turkey
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Europe Report (International Crisis Group) N° 225, 48 p. Türkçe
Antakya/Ankara/Istanbul/Brussels, 30 April 2013
As the humanitarian crisis reaches catastrophic proportions,Syria needs to open its borders to external aid, while Turkey and its international partners need more long-term planning to meet growing refugee needs and avoid having instability spill over the porous border. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey’s Second Kurdish Opening: Light at the End of the Tunnel or Another Failed Attempt? avril 12, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: conflicts, Ilter Turan, Kurds, Middle East, PKK, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Turkey
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German Marshall Fund of the United States, April 12, 2013
Ilter Turan *
Following a rebellion in 1925, Turkish became the exclusive language of the Turkish educational system and the bureaucracy; organizing to express ethnicity in a political way was banned. (en savoir plus…)
A Turkish Perspective on Security Issues in the Mediterranean avril 10, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: conflicts, Cyprus, GPoT Center, Greece, Mediterranean, Middle East, Turkey, Şadi Ergüvenç
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GPoT Policy Brief (GPoT Center) No. 36, April 2013, 8 p.
by Şadi Ergüvenç *
The Mediterranean is where the atmosphere of mutual distrust, fear and polarization prevail. Arab-Israeli dispute and Turkish-Greek differences over the Aegean and Cyprus impede efforts for developing mutual confidence and co-operation. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey’s Negotiations with the PKK: Contents, Dynamics, Risks, and Possible Outcomes mars 28, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: Abdullah Öcalan, AKP, conflicts, Gökhan Bacik, Kurds, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Turkey
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German Marshall Fund of the United States, March 28, 2013
By Gökhan Bacik *
The government’s recent direct talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the call by Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK, for the PKK’s withdrawal from Turkey are a turning point in the history of Turkey’s Kurdish problem. (en savoir plus…)
The Cost of Frozen Conflict for Cyprus, Greece and Turkey mars 26, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Europe du Sud-Est, Turquie.Tags: conflicts, Cyprus, Greece, Hugh Pope, International Crisis Group, Turkey
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) 26 March 2013, p. 14
Ekathimerini (Greece) 25 March 2013
Hugh Pope *
Last month, iron anti-riot shutters boarded up the street-side windows of the Grande Bretagne hotel ballroom in Athens as fine-suited patriarchs of Greek and Cypriot industry gathered for the annual Athens Energy Forum (en savoir plus…)
Turkey Doesn’t Need Article V NATO Support to Defend Itself Against Syria décembre 19, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute, conflicts, defence, John Noble, Middle East, NATO, Syria, Turkey
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Policy Update (CDFAI) December 2012
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
by John Noble *
In this Policy Update from the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute, Fellow John Noble ponders whether Turkey will require NATO Article V support to protect itself from Syria. (en savoir plus…)
Into the Quagmire: Turkey’s Frustrated Syria Policy décembre 15, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: AKP, Chatham House, Christopher Phillips, conflicts, foreign policy, Middle East, NATO, PKK, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Syria, Turkey
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Briefing Paper (Chatham House) MENAP BP 2012/04, December 2012, 16 p.
Middle East and North Africa Programme
Christopher Phillips *
After a decade of cooperation and closeness with Syria, Turkey’s policy has changed radically as a result of the 2011–12 crisis in Syria. It is now openly calling for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and actively sponsoring the opposition. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey’s Civilian Capacity in Post-Conflict Reconstruction novembre 29, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: CIVCAP, CIVCAP Network, civilian capacity, conflicts, Istanbul Policy Center, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI, Onur Sazak, Sabancı University, Teri Murphy
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Istanbul Policy Center (Sabancı University) 2012, 35 p.
By Teri Murphy & Onur Sazak
Since the early 2000s, the Turkish assistance to post-conflict countries seems to have shifted dramatically from military missions to civilian capacity assistance. (en savoir plus…)
