Model of Muslim democracy loses its lustre in eyes of Arab onlookers 4 juin 2013
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Arabs, democracy, Iraq, Middle East, protests, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Tunisia, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Tuesday, June 4, 2013, p. 3
By Borzou Daragahi in Cairo and Michael Peel in Abu Dhabi
The popular protests against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan have gripped an Arab world that looked to Turkey as a model of Islamic democracy, write Borzou Daragahi in Cairo and Michael Peel in Abu Dhabi . (suite…)
A Turkish model of governance for the Arabs? Yes and no 7 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Arab Spring, Arabs, Middle East, Mustafa Akyol, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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The Daily Star (Lebanon) February 07, 2012, p. 7
By Mustafa Akyol *
Is Turkey indeed a model for the new Arab regimes? Yes and no. Here’s why. The negative first. No, Turkey is not a model for Arab states, for every country has its own history, culture and political structure, which cannot be replicated. (suite…)
Does Arab Spring mean Turkish Fall? 15 mai 2011
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Arab uprisings, Arabs, foreign policy, Middle East, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, Şahin Alpay
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) 15 May 2011, Sunday Türkçe
Şahin Alpay
If you look at what is written about Turkish foreign policy by Western, and especially American, observers nowadays, you will find that in many of the commentaries the thesis that the Arab Spring — referring to the global wave of democratization after the end of the Cold War finally reaching the Arab world — is leading to the failure of Turkey’s foreign policy, which is based on the principle of “zero problems with neighbors,” pursued by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) since it came to power in 2002. (suite…)
A new Sykes-Picot Agreement 15 mai 2011
Posted by Acturca in France, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient.Tags: Arabs, Britain, France, History / Histoire, Libya, M. D. Nalapat, Middle East, Sykes-Picot Agreement
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Weekly Sunday Times (Pakistan), May 15, 2011
M. D. Nalapat *
Ninety-five years ago, Britain and France got together to divide the Arab world. The 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement formalised the division of the region into spheres of influence controlled by London and Paris. Gone were the promises of freedom that had been given to the Arab peoples at the start of the campaign against Turkey. (suite…)
Arab Spring, Turkish Fall 5 mai 2011
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Arab uprisings, Arabs, foreign policy, Libya, Middle East, Steven A. Cook, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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Foreign Policy (USA) May 5, 2011
By Steven A. Cook *
Turkey’s leaders are looking less like the new Ottomans they’ve imagined themselves to be and more like stumbling politicians afraid of a new regional order. (suite…)
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