The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire mai 19, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Histoire.Tags: Ottoman Empire, military, History, military history, Crimean Tatar, Brian Glyn Williams
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The Jamestown Foundation (USA) May 2013, 53 p.
Brian Glyn Williams *
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the Christian nations of Europe and the Shiites of Persia were forced to defend their lands against the inroads of an ever expanding Ottoman Empire, an empire whose awesome war machine at times appeared strong enough to absorb its immediate neighbors. (en savoir plus…)
Ataturk’s secular vision still thriving février 14, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Histoire, Religion, Turquie.Tags: Ataturk, History, Islam, secular, Turkey
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The Irish Times, Thursday, February 14, 2013, p. 14 Türkçe
David Adams
Each morning, as dawn breaks, one awakens to the sound of the first Islamic call to prayer. The muezzin’s voice, beautifully atmospheric as it echoes and resonates about the town, will be heard another four times before midnight. (en savoir plus…)
Turkish History Revisited: Uniting or Polarizing? janvier 30, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Histoire, Turquie.Tags: AKP, Diba Nigar Göksel, German Marshall Fund of the United States, History, Turkey
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German Marshall Fund of the United States, January 30, 2013, 4 p.
Diba Nigar Göksel *
In and around Turkey, both the dark and glorious pages of Ottoman and Republican Turkish history are being evoked in parallel battles. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey succeeded in building "own model", says scholar octobre 29, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Histoire, Turquie.Tags: History, interview, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, İlber Ortaylı
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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, October 29, 2012, p. 6
Barçın Yinanç, Istanbul
As Turkey celebrates the 89th anniversary of the republic, a historian says Turkey is one of the few states in the Islamic world that comes close to the concept of a contemporary republic. ‘Turkey built its own model,’ says İlber Ortaylı, adding that Turkey’s recipe of secularism and modernity is attractive in the Middle East. (en savoir plus…)
Author Ibrahim Karahasan-Chynar: Turkish Minority Can and Should Have a Constructive Place in Bulgarian Society and Politics octobre 11, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Europe du Sud-Est, Histoire, Religion, Turquie.Tags: Ahmed Dogan, Balkans, book, Bulgaria, EU membership, History, Ibrahim Karahasan-Chynar, interview, Islam, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ottoman Empire, Roxolana, soap opera, Turkey, Turkey-EU, Turkish minority
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Novinite.com (Bulgaria) October 11, 2012, Thursday
Maria Guineva
Neighboring Turkey has always caused fierce debates in Bulgaria on the 500 years of Ottoman rule, on the interpretation of historical facts, on the Communist regime’s Revival Process to replace the names of Bulgarian Muslims with Christian ones (en savoir plus…)
How the east was lost juillet 28, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Asie Centrale, Histoire, Livres, Russie, Turquie.Tags: Asia, Book Review, China, History, Mark Mazower, Pankaj Mishra, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Saturday, July 28, 2012, p. 8
FT Weekend Supplement – Life & Arts
By Mark Mazower *
Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1889. This was nothing if not wishful thinking, and no one knew it better than the poet of the imperial Raj himself: indeed, that same year Kipling visited Hong Kong and bemoaned the likely impact of bringing railways and newspapers to China. "What," he warned, "will happen when China really wakes up?" (en savoir plus…)
The Syrian cauldron juillet 12, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Etats-Unis, Histoire, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Arab Spring, History, Jeremy Salt, Middle East, NATO, Syria, Turkey, USA
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Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) Issue No. 1106, 12-18 July 2012
Jeremy Salt *
While the Western powers have their own reasons for wanting to bring down the Syrian regime, Turkey’s agenda is far less clear, writes Jeremy Salt in Ankara. (en savoir plus…)
Lessons from Ottoman past risk falling on deaf ears juin 25, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Histoire, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Davutoglu, Andrew Finkel, foreign policy, History, Middle East, Ottoman Empire
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Financial Times (UK) FT Report-Turkey, June 25, 2012, p. 3
By Andrew Finkel *
It was certainly a sword-and-spear spectacular – replete with cauldrons of molten pitch and computer-enhanced biceps – but was it also an allegorical tale of eurozone decline? (en savoir plus…)
Turkey as a test case in the multipolar post-Cold War order juin 20, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Arab Spring, Cold War, History, Middle East, Turkey, USA
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Open Democracy, 20 June 2012 Türkçe
William Armstrong *
Turkey has frequently been cited as a model for other countries in the Middle East currently undergoing an "Arab Spring". While there are similarities among the countries of the Middle East, Turkey has had a distinct trajectory that does not make it an appropriate model. (en savoir plus…)
