Addressing the Turkish Dimension in Creating a Euro-Atlantic Security Community 3 février 2012
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EASI Working Group Paper (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) February 2012, 15 p.
EASI Working Group on Turkey
Building a Euro-Atlantic Security Community has many dimensions, including the multiple and diverse sides of security—from its political-military aspects to economic, environmental, and energy security, as well as human security in the form of good governance and respect for the rights of individuals. (suite…)
Is Europe setting up clash between Muslims and the West? 3 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in EU / UE, France, History / Histoire, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: EU / UE, France, History / Histoire, Iran, Mohammed Ayoob, Samuel Huntington, Turkey
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CNN (USA) February 3, 2012
By Mohammed Ayoob *
Europe and the Muslim world seem to be on a collision course that could have major political, economic and ideological ramifications. January 23, 2012, may well come to be remembered as the crucial date when Samuel Huntington’s « clash of civilizations » thesis, which many of us believed discredited beyond repair, was reaffirmed. (suite…)
La Turquie, entre Orient et Occident 3 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, France, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Dorothée Schmid, France, IFRI, Turkey / Turquie
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Les Echos (France) no. 21116, vendredi 3 février 2012, p. 15
Le livre du jour
Jacques Hubert-Rodier
Le propos. Depuis les années 1920, de la fin de l’Empire ottoman et l’établissement de la République par Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, jusqu’aux années 1990, la Turquie a presque disparu de « l’histoire du Moyen-Orient et du monde arabe ». Largement pour sacrifier à sa tentation européenne. (suite…)
Doux comme un Turc 3 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ali Basman, Bogaz Kere, Kavaklidere, Stéphane Derenoncourt, Turkey / Turquie, vin, viticulture
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Les Echos (France) no. 21116, vendredi 3 février 2012, p. 12
Jean-Francis Pécresse
On se fait des idées sur les Turcs en général, donc sur les vins turcs en particulier. Il en va ainsi dans notre pays confit da sa gloire passée, à présent donneur de leçons en tout genre -d’histoire, de morale, de bon goût, d’intelligence… : l’ignorance y est mère de tous les anathèmes. (suite…)
Echoes of war across the South Caucasus 3 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Energy / Energie, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Georgia, Iran, Israël, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nicholas Clayton, Russia, Russia / Russie, South Caucasus, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, USA
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Asia Times Online (Hong Kong) February 3, 2012
By Nicholas Clayton *, Tbilisi (Georgia)
As the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program intensifies, South Caucasus leaders are pondering contingencies since the consequences of open conflict or prolonged tensions are potentially serious for all three nations. (suite…)
Israel’s front-line in the South Caucasus 3 février 2012
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The Jewish Chronicle (UK) February 3, 2012, p. 26
By Tim Judah *
Aghdam is as far as you can go. Travel east, cross Turkey, pass the snow-capped twin peaks of Ararat, cross Armenia and finally you get to Nagorno-Karabakh. As the Soviet Union collapsed, this was the front-line in a brutal war pitting Armenians against Azerbaijanis, or Azeris. (suite…)
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