Turkey and the Dream of Ottoman Revival mai 20, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Histoire, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign policy, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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The Wall Street Journal Asia (USA) May 20, 2013, p. 11
By Hillel Fradkin & Lewis Libby *
The Middle East isn’t returning to an era of Ottoman-enforced peace and stability—no matter how badly Ankara wants it. (en savoir plus…)
Turkey oil deal signals end of post-Ottoman empire order mai 20, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energie, Histoire, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Middle East, oil, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Monday, May 20, 2013, p. 2
By David Gardner in London
Confirmation that Turkey plans to buy into the oil and gas wealth of the self-governing Kurdish region of northern Iraq has led to warnings – most stridently from the US – that Ankara is gambling with the break-up of Iraq. (en savoir plus…)
The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire mai 19, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Histoire.Tags: Brian Glyn Williams, Crimean Tatar, History, military, military history, Ottoman Empire
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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…)
A monument to an adventurer’s fantasies novembre 29, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, France, Histoire, Istanbul, Livres, Turquie.Tags: museum, Ottoman Empire, Pierre Loti, Restoration and Renovation, Rochefort, Turkey
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International Herald Tribune, Thursday, November 29, 2012
By Susanne Fowler, Rochefort (France)
The French government shores up a novelist’s Ottoman celebration. (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…)
Turkey would do well to remember its history octobre 8, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Histoire, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Norman Stone, Ottoman Empire, Syria, Turkey
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The Times (UK) October 8, 2012, p. 20
Norman Stone *
The shelling of Syria and talk of war are the actions of an overconfident Government. Anyone familiar with Turkey will have seen the ubiquitous statues of the country’s founder, Kemal Atatürk. (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…)
Tracking Turkey’s First Starchitect juin 10, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Histoire, Istanbul, Turquie.Tags: architect, architecture, Edirne, History, Islamic architecture, Mimar Sinan, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) June 10, 2012, p. TR9
By Andrew Ferren
“The only way to arrive at Semsi Pasha Mosque is by water,” my guide said as our little boat dodged two tankers on the Bosporus. On every shore around us, the domes and minarets of some of Istanbul’s nearly 3,000 mosques delineated the skyline of a city that looks like no other. (en savoir plus…)
