Oy Vey (İ)z-mir: The Turkish Elections and Erdoğan’s Options 26 mars 2014
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Kasım Han, AKP, decision-making, leadership, local elections, Moshe Dayan Center, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Tel Aviv Notes
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Tel Aviv Notes (The Moshe Dayan Center) Vol. 8, No. 6, March 26, 2014
Tel Aviv University
by Ahmet Kasım Han *
On the 16 th of March, T urkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended a grandiose election rally in İzmir, in advance of the forthcoming municipal elections. (suite…)
EU-Turkey Relations: Turning vicious circles into virtuous ones 26 mars 2014
Posted by Acturca in Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Center for European Policy Studies, CEPS, Steven Blockmans
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CEPS Policy Briefs (Center for European Policy Studies) No. 317, 26 March 2014, 8 p.
Steven Blockmans *
The coming weeks and months will be decisive for the general tenor of politics in Turkey. The country faces local elections this March, presidential elections in August and general elections next June, while top-level political scandals compound the deterioration in the state of democracy and rule of law. (suite…)
Untangling the Turkey-KRG Energy Partnership: Looking Beyond Economic Drivers 26 mars 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Gonul Tol, GTE Policy Briefs, Iraq, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Kurdistan Regional Government, natural gas, oil
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GTE Policy Brief (Istituto Affari Internazionali) No.14, March 2014, 6 p.
by Gönül Tol *
For decades, Turkey viewed Iraq primarily through the lens of its own Kurdish problem. In the aftermath of the first Gulf War, Ankara shunned direct contact with Iraqi Kurds and opposed the incorporation of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk into a Kurdish federal state, fearing that it would strengthen Iraqi Kurds’ drive for independence (suite…)
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