Erdogan’s Kurdish gambit avril 14, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energie, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Iraq, Kurdish regional government, Kurds, Middle East, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sinan Ülgen, Turkey
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Gulf Times (Qatar) April 14, 2013, p. 32 Deutsch Español Français
Sinan Ülgen *, Istanbul
Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. (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…)
The Kurdish question: Erdogan’s 2+1 strategy avril 8, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: Ibrahim Kalin, Kurds, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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Al Jazeera.com (Qatar) 08 April 2013
Ibrahim Kalin *
No other issue has caused Turkey as much suffering and trauma as the Kurdish question, writes Kalin. (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…)
Turkey dares to dream again of greater sway in oil-rich lands mars 20, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energie, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: energy, Iraq, Kurds, oil, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Wednesday, March 20, 2013, p. 2
By Daniel Dombey in Istanbul
President Lyndon Baines Johnson used to say he had one great skill: an understanding of power, "where to look for it and how to use it". As events this week are likely to demonstrate, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, believes he has the same gift. (en savoir plus…)
Kurd Locked in Solitary Cell Holds Key to Turkish Peace mars 18, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Abdullah Öcalan, Kurds, Middle East, PKK, Turkey
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The Wall Street Journal Europe (USA) March 18, 2013, p. 12-13
By Joe Parkinson and Ayla Albayrak, Istanbul
Leader of Militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party Is Negotiating Deal That Could Halt Guerrilla War (en savoir plus…)
To Europe and Back: The Three Decades of Kurdish Struggle in Turkey mars 15, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turquie, UE.Tags: Dilek Kurban, European Court of Human Rights, GTE Policy Briefs, human rights, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Kurds, Turkey
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GTE Policy Briefs (Istituto Affari Internazionali) n. 7, 15 March 2013, 5 p.
by Dilek Kurban *
Europe has been a primary actor in Turkey’s democratization process and for the Kurdish political struggle carried out simultaneously by the PKK and civilian actors since the late 1980s. (en savoir plus…)
Iraq, 10 years on: The US won the war, Iran won the peace and Turkey won the contracts mars 13, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Economie, Energie, Etats-Unis, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: energy, Iraq, Iraq war, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kurds, Turkey, USA
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Financial Times (UK) Wednesday, March 13, 2013, p.1
By Daniel Dombey in Istanbul and Funja Guler in Ankara
A new candidate has emerged as the true victor of the Iraq war. A decade after Turkey infuriated Washington by blocking the deployment of US troops through its territory for the 2003 invasion, its businessmen are proving the champions in the battle for the Iraqi market. (en savoir plus…)
Is Turkey Ready for a Kurdish Peace? mars 12, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Gonul Tol, Kurds, Middle East, PKK, Syria, Turkey
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The National Interest (USA) March 12, 2013
Gonul Tol *
Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a 28-year war against the Turkish state, is an unlikely candidate for peacemaker. Yet recently he has become Ankara’s key ally in its efforts to end the three-decade-old armed struggle. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey’s foray into the Fertile Crescent février 28, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East, PKK, Soner Cagaptay, Syria, Turkey
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International Herald Tribune (USA) Thursday, February 28, 2013, p. 6
By Soner Cagaptay *
The biggest open secret in Ankara is that Turkey detests Iran, which it sees as undermining its interests in Syria and Iraq. Turkish leaders will not admit this publicly, for their country desperately needs Iranian natural gas and oil to continue its phenomenal economic growth. (en savoir plus…)
