Postcard From Turkey 19 juin 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Gezi Park, protests, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Taksim, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) Wednesday, June 19, 2013, p. A 27
By Thomas L. Friedman, Istanbul
Having witnessed the Egyptian uprising in Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011, I was eager to compare it with the protests by Turkish youths here in Taksim Square in 2013. They are very different. (suite…)
La Turquie doit se libérer de la dérive autoritaire des islamistes au pouvoir 19 juin 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Bayram Balci, manifestation, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Taksim
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Le Monde (France) mercredi 19 juin 2013, p. 19
Bayram Balci *
La crise actuelle marque un point de rupture dans la vie politique de la Turquie républicaine. C’est la première fois dans l’histoire récente du pays qu’un tel mouvement de protestation parvient à défier un gouvernement démocratiquement élu à trois reprises consécutives. (suite…)
Comparison of mass protests in Brazil and Turkey 19 juin 2013
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Associated Press (USA) Wed, June 19, 2013
By Karl Ritter
Large-scale protests have engulfed Turkey and Brazil, which are thousands of miles apart, but share some traits such as being new democracies with a growing middle class. (suite…)
Turkey and Georgia: Zero-Problems? 19 juin 2013
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, EU / UE, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Caucasus, Diba Nigar Göksel, EU, foreign policy, Georgia, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Turkey
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German Marshall Fund of the United States, June 19, 2013, 8 p.
Diba Nigar Göksel *
Over the past decade, relations between Turkey and Georgia have flourished on the political, economic, and geostrategic fronts. Nevertheless, underlying frictions have surfaced in the past year when Georgian parliamentary election campaigns highlighted Turko-skepticism among segments of the Georgian society. (suite…)
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