European Perceptions of Turkish Foreign Policy 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: AKP, foreign policy, Müjge Küçükkeleş, SETA, SETA Policy Report, Talip Küçükcan, Turkey-EU
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SETA Policy Report, No. 10, April 2012, 45 p.
Müjge Küçükkeleş & Talip Küçükcan *
The study aims to analyze European elites’ perceptions of Turkish Foreign Policy under AK Party period. (suite…)
Principles of Turkish Foreign Policy and Regional Political Structuring 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Davutoglu, Arab Spring, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, foreign policy, International Policy and Leadership Institute, IPLI, Les Synthèses turques, Middle East, North Africa, politique étrangère, TEPAV, Turkey, Turkey Policy Brief Series
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Turkey Policy Brief Series (IPLI – TEPAV) 3rd edition, 2012, 9 p. Français
by Ahmet Davutoğlu
This policy brief elaborates the principles of Turkey’s foreign policy as the country responds to the regional political transformation. The brief argues that Turkey sees the regional transformation as a natural process and works to devise suitable policies to cope with the challenges. (suite…)
Turkey’s Strategic Visions and Syria 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: foreign policy, Gaullism, Kemalism, Middle East, Neo-Ottomanism, Omer Taspinar, Syria, Turkey
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) 30 April 2012, p. 15
Ömer Taspinar
Where does Turkey’s Syria policy fit in the larger framework of Turkish grand strategy? To answer this question one has to first look at the three strategic visions that have been driving Turkish foreign policy in the last few decades. (suite…)
Turkish Writer Opens Museum Based on Novel 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Istanbul, museum, Museum of Innocence, novel, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) April 30, 2012, p. C1
By J. Michael Kennedy, Istanbul
The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 to be exact — mounted behind plexiglass on the ground floor of the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, »The Museum of Innocence. » (suite…)
‘Absurd’ detention of Turkish officers 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: A. Yasin Türker, détention, sledgehammer, Turkey, Turkish Armed Forces
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Financial Times (UK) Monday, April 30, 2012, p. 10
Letters to the Editor
From Dr A. Yasin Turker *
Sir, I am one of the 250 officers (including 55 serving admirals and generals) arrested in the « sledgehammer » case, charged with attempting to overthrow the government of Turkey through force and violence in 2002-03. I have been detained since September 16 2011 and still do not know the detailed grounds for my continuing detention. (suite…)
Eurochallenge – Final Four: premier sacre européen pour le Besiktas 29 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in France, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: basket-ball, Besiktas, Chalon-sur-Saône, Eurochallenge
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Agence France Presse
Dimanche 29 avril 2012
Le club turc du Besiktas Istanbul a remporté le premier titre européen de son histoire en battant logiquement les Français de Chalon-sur-Saône 91 à 86 (mi-temps: 44-40) en finale de l’Eurochallenge messieurs de basket-ball, dimanche à Debrecen (Hongrie). (suite…)
Enseignante en Turquie : « Je n’ai jamais eu le sentiment d’habiter loin » 29 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in France, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Christine Vuillet, enseignante, français, Izmir, lycée Tevfik Fikret, Saint-Claude
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Le Progrès (France) 29 avril 2012, p. 17
Saint-Claude-ville
« Je ne suis pas plus en manque du Jura en vivant en Turquie, que n’importe où ailleurs en France », avoue sans hésiter Christine Vuillet, la Sanclaudienne, partie enseigner en Turquie. « Il y a deux vols par jour Genève-Istanbul et un vol Lyon-Istanbul, autant d’avions que de trains entre Saint-Claude et Paris ! ». (suite…)
Le musée aux mille pages 28 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Istanbul, littérature, musée, Musée de l'Innocence, Orhan Pamuk, roman, Turkey / Turquie
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Le Monde (France) samedi 28 avril 2012, p. ARH2
Culture & idées
Guillaume Perrier, Istanbul, correspondance
Le Prix Nobel de littérature Orhan Pamuk inaugure, à Istanbul, un lieu d’exposition privé dans lequel il a patiemment assemblé les objets décrits dans son livre « Le Musée de l’Innocence ». (suite…)
Turkey and the army: Military meddles 28 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Ergenekon, Kenan Evren, military coup, Necmettin Erbakan, sledgehammer, Turkey
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The Economist (UK) no. 950
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The battle with the AK government continues. When the generals toppled modern Turkey’s first Islamist-led government in 1997, they said the fight against Islamic fundamentalism would last « a thousand years ». (suite…)
La Turquie vote Hollande 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, France, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: élection, élection présidentielle, Can Buharali, Egemen Bagis, François Hollande, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, relations bilatérales, Sami Kohen, Turkey / Turquie
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La Tribune (France), no. 4961, vendredi 27 avril 2012, p. 7
Delphine Nerbollier, à Istanbul
Les Turcs espèrent ouvertement une défaite du président français sortant, sans se faire d’illusions toutefois sur son concurrent. (suite…)
Would Hollande be better for Turkey? 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in France, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: bilateral relations, diplomacy, elections, François Hollande, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Semih Idiz, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU
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Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey) 27 April 2012, p. 7
Semih Idiz
There is speculation as to whether a victory by François Hollande in the French Presidential elections would be good for Turkey, or whether it would represent much of the same, given the negative pattern established under President Nicolas Sarkozy. (suite…)
The game of models: Why not several Arab models? 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Amir Taheri, Arab Spring, Iran, Middle East, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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Asharq Alawsat (UK) Friday, April 27, 2012
By Amir Taheri *
With the « Arab Spring » still in the headlines, academics and politicians are debating the direction that affected countries might take. (suite…)
« Sunni » Turkey and the containment policy failure 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Adel Al Toraifi, AKP, Caucasus, foreign policy, Iran, Middle East, Syria, Turgut Özal, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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Asharq Alawsat (UK) Friday, April 27, 2012
By Adel Al Toraifi *
When the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Tehran in May 2010, to offer support for the Brazilian project regarding the Iranian nuclear file, the conservative press in Iran described Erdogan as an example of wise leadership in the region. (suite…)
La religion entre en force dans les écoles publiques turques 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: arabe, Education, imam hatip, Mehmet Agar, Turkey / Turquie
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La Croix (France) no. 39263, vendredi 27 avril 2012, p. 5
Delphine Nerbollier, Istanbul de notre correspondante
Une nouvelle loi introduit des cours facultatifs sur le Coran et l’enseignement de l’arabe. Les milieux laïcs s’inquiètent et craignent que la pression sociale pousse à rendre ces enseignements obligatoires. (suite…)
C’est le projet pétrolier le plus fou au monde 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, France, Russia / Russie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: D Island, France, gaz, Kachagan, Kazakhstan, mer Caspienne, pétrole, Russia / Russie, Umberto Carrara
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Le Soir (Belgique) vendredi 27 avril 2012, p. 26
Benjamin Quenelle, Kachagan, de notre envoyé spécial
Bienvenue sur D Island ! Une île artificielle en pleine mer Caspienne, dans les eaux du Kazakhstan. Un labyrinthe de tubes s’étendant sur 1,7 km. (suite…)
Une fête bien vernie! 27 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, France, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: association, Association Tulipe Morges Istanbul, Ertan Özbatur, Fête de la tulipe, Festival de tulipe d'Istanbul, France, Istanbul, Morges, Turkey / Turquie, Yverdon-les-Bains
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Journal de Morges (France) vendredi 27 avril 2012, p. 27
Gilbert Hermann
Le vernissage de la Fête de la Tulipe a levé le voile sur une édition composée de notes turques, mais aussi yverdonnoises. (suite…)
A Turkish view 26 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Arab Spring, Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, foreign policy, Israël, Middle East, Syria, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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Bitterlemons-international.org, April 26, 2012, Edition 15
The Arab revolutions: strategic assessment II
Ersin Kalaycioglu *
When the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid led to an avalanche of protests in Tunisia in January 2011, nearly the entire Arab world began to rock with popular uprisings. (suite…)
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