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…)