Caspian Triangles: Azerbaijan’s Trilateral Diplomacy — A New Approach for a New Era 14 mai 2015
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Central Asia Economic Papers, No. 14, May 2015
The Central Asia Program (CAP) at George Washington University
By Richard Weitz *
A series of trilateral partnerships in the Caspian-Caucuses is reinventing geo-politics and unleashing economic potential in a region eager to outrun its Cold War-era shadows and escape new peripheral tensions. (suite…)
Turkmenistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan: Potential for a Trilateral Energy Strategy? 9 avril 2015
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Energy / Energie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Azerbaijan, Caspian Center for Energy and Environment, CCEE Policy Brief, TANAP, trans-Caspian pipeline, Turkmenistan, Zaur Shiriyev
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CCEE Policy Brief, No. 14, April 2015
Caspian Center for Energy and Environment (CCEE)
By Zaur Shiriyev *
Following the recent (March 4) visit to Ankara by his counterpart from Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a trilateral mechanism on energy issues between Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. (suite…)
Le grand exode des Ouïgours 26 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Chine, Ouïgour, Turkestan oriental, Xinjiang
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Le Monde (France) jeudi 26 mars 2015, p. 18
Brice Pedroletti
Répression politique et religieuse, contrôle des déplacements… La brutalité des autorités chinoises précipite les départs dans la minorité musulmane de la province du Xinjiang. Une fuite massive et clandestine à destination de la Turquie. (suite…)
Turkey Is Central to the Russia-Europe Energy Standoff 10 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Energy / Energie, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: gas pipeline, South Stream, TANAP
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Stratfor (USA) March 10, 2015
Media Center, Image
The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia’s cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. (suite…)
Turks embrace Muslims who fled China 3 février 2015
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: China, Kayseri, Uighurs, Xinjiang
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Los Angeles Times (USA) Tuesday, February 3, 2015, p. 1
By Julie Makinen and Glen Johnson
One city welcomes 600 Uighurs as brethren after their perilous escape. (suite…)
Silk Roads initiatives enters new phase: think tank 15 décembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Economy / Economie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: China, Development Research Center, Li Wei, Silk Road
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Xinhua – News Agency (China)
Monday, December 15, 2014, Istanbul
China’s initiatives on building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, popularly known as the Belt and Road Initiatives, has entered a more practical phase of fulfillment, a leading Chinese think tank has said. (suite…)
Russia, Turkey pivot across Eurasia 9 décembre 2014
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Asia Times Online (Hong Kong) Dec 8, 2014
By Pepe Escobar *
The latest, spectacular « Exit South Stream, Enter Turk Stream » Pipelinistan gambit will be sending big geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. This is what the New Great Game in Eurasia is all about. (suite…)
Turkey in the Eurasian Energy Game 21 novembre 2014
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Policy Paper Series (GRF) No.1, November 2014
Global Relations Forum (GRF) Young Academics Program
Onur Çobanlı *
Turkey is a major natural gas consumer in Eurasia, and its demand is expected to grow rapidly in parallel with its economic performance. (suite…)
Turkey’s path resembles Pakistan’s 3 novembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Afghanistan, Canada, Chris Kilford, ISIS, Pakistan, Syria, Taliban
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Ottawa Citizen (Canada) November 3, 2014, p. C6
Chris Kilford *
The West needs to rethink Syria. In late October 2012, while working at the Canadian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, I had occasion to chat with a Pakistani diplomat about the situation unfolding in Syria. (suite…)
Olivier Roy « Je me bats contre les préjugés sur l’islam » 30 octobre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, France, Immigration, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: État islamique en Irak et au Levant (EIIL), Daech, Islam, Jean-Louis Schlegel, laïcité, Olivier Roy
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Pèlerin (France) no. 6883, jeudi 30 octobre 2014, p. 4-7
Sophie Laurant
Philosophe, sociologue, ce spécialiste de l’islam politique a débuté sa carrière en apprenant les langues orientales et en voyageant dans les montagnes afghanes. (suite…)
Pakistan’s Lessons for Turkey 6 octobre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Afghanistan, Halil M. Karaveli, ISIS, Michael M. Tanchum, Pakistan, Syria, Taliban
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The International New York Times (USA) Monday, October 6, 2014
By Michael M. Tanchum and Halil M. Karaveli *
Last week, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared that Turkey is ready »for any cooperation in the fight against terrorism. » Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu argued that Islamic State militants pose a greater threat to Turkey and the Muslim world than to the West. (suite…)
Russia pushing to shore up influence over Caspian Sea 5 octobre 2014
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Nikkei Report (Japan) October 4, 2014
Jacopo Dettoni, Contributing writer
Almaty, Kazakhstan — Russia has strengthened its influence over oil and gas exports from the Caspian region after a summit with the other four nations bordering the inland sea produced an outline agreement on the key principles to regulate maritime frontiers in the basin. (suite…)
Turkey’s New Regional Security Role: Implications for the United States 26 septembre 2014
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The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) September 2014, 202 pages
US Army War College Press
Richard Weitz *
Until a few years ago, the relationship between Washington and Ankara was perennially troubled and occasionally terrible. Turkey opposed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and complained that the Pentagon was allowing Iraqi Kurds too much autonomy, leading to deteriorating security along the Iraq-Turkish border. (suite…)
La Turquie, l’Europe et la géopolitique eurasienne 8 septembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Russia / Russie.Tags: adhésion, Institut Européen des Relations Internationales (IERI), Irnerio Seminatore
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Institut Européen des Relations Internationales (IERI) 8/9/2014
Irnerio Seminatore *
Les relations entre l’Europe et la Turquie sont inscrites dans une géopolitique eurasienne, caractérisée par une triple métamorphose: de la géographie, de la puissance et des équilibres stratégiques. (suite…)
Entre turbulences ukrainiennes et caucasiennes: quelles conséquences pour la Turquie en mer noire? 3 septembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Alexandre Toumarkine, Didier Billion, IRIS, Observatoire de la Turquie et de son environnement géopolitique, séminaire, Ukraine
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Observatoire de la Turquie et de son environnement géopolitique (IRIS) 3 septembre 2014
Autour de Alexandre Toumarkine, animé par Didier Billion *
L’Ukraine et le Caucase constituent actuellement un bon prisme pour repenser la politique étrangère turque, car cette dernière est éventuellement plus simple à analyser sur ces deux terrains que sur d’autres, notamment au Moyen‐Orient et en Afrique du Nord, où les positionnements de la diplomatie turque ont beaucoup surpris. (suite…)
A New Eurasian Embrace: Turkey Pivots East While China Marches West 27 mai 2014
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Economy / Economie, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: China, Christina Lin, Eurasia, NATO, Silk Road, Transatlantic Academy, Transatlantic Academy Paper Series, Uyghur, Xinjiang
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Transatlantic Academy Paper Series, May 2014, 17 p.
Christina Lin *
Turkey, with its increasingly Eurasian geopolitical trajectory, seems to be at a point of choosing whether to remain anchored in the West, or fundamentally shift its axis eastward toward Eurasia. (suite…)
The AKP/Gülen Crisis in Turkey: Consequences for Central Asia and the Caucasus 26 avril 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Bayram Balci, Central Asia Policy Briefs, Elliot School of International Affairs, Fethullah Gülen
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Central Asia Policy Briefs (Elliot School of International Affairs) No.16 April 2014
George Washington University
Bayram Balci *
The AKP government, in power since 2002, has long benefited from the unconditional and valuable support of Fethullah Gülen’s sphere of influence, which stretches across many domains. (suite…)
Turkey and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Motives and Consequences 23 avril 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, China, foreign policy, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Stephen Blank
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Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, Vol. 16, No. 08, 23 April 2014, pages 11-14
Bi-Weekly Briefing ~ Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
By Stephen Blank *
At a recent meeting with Russian President Putin, Prime Minister Erdogan appealed to Putin to include Turkey in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and spare it the troubles of negotiating about EU accession. (suite…)
Turkey’s Gülen Controversy Spills over to Azerbaijan 2 avril 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Azerbaijan, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, Fethullah Gülen, Mina Muradova
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Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, Vol. 16, No. 07, 02 April 2014, pages 19-22
Bi-Weekly Briefing ~ Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
By Mina Muradova
The conflict between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Islamic Hizmet movement’s leader Fethullah Gülen has spread to Azerbaijan. (suite…)
Turkey as a Regional Natural Gas Hub: Myth or Reality? An Analysis of the Regional Gas Market Outlook, beyond the Mainstream Rhetoric 30 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Natural Gas Markets, Nota di Lavoro, Simone Tagliapietra, Southern gas corridor
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Nota di Lavoro (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) 2.2014
Simone Tagliapietra *
Over the last years Turkey has been increasingly associated in the international political and economic debate with concepts such as “gas corridor” and “gas hub”. This characterization of Turkey is clearly mainly due to its unique geographical position at the crossroads the Caspian region, the Middle East and Europe. (suite…)
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