Putin and Erdogan: Comrades in ‘Blind Alley’ 4 décembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cengiz Çandar, foreign policy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, South Stream, Syria, Vladimir Putin
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BBC Monitoring Europe (UK) Thursday, December 4, 2014 Türkçe
by Cengiz Candar, Text of report by Turkish newspaper Radikal website on 3 Dec.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s one-day visit to Ankara was important. It was especially important because it pointed the direction in which Turkey’s « foreign policy deviations » could go under the « Tayyip Erdogan regime » (suite…)
‘Precious loneliness’ of Turkey or sublimation of a failure 19 août 2013
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cengiz Çandar, foreign policy, Nuray Mert, Turkey
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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, August 19, 2013, p. 4
Nuray Mert
“Loneliness” is one of the most “noble” concepts of literary genre. As such, it implies voluntary or inevitable exclusion from the banality of the ordinary life and people. As such, it is an aspiration of uniqueness, and intellectual and/or moral superiority over “the base.” (suite…)
Ankara dénonce la reprise en main au Caire 16 juillet 2013
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Cengiz Çandar, coup d'État, Egypte, Mohamed Morsi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Le Monde (France) mardi 16 juillet 2013, p. 3
Guillaume Perrier, Istanbul Correspondance
A Tagamu Al-Khamis, les voisins de Mohamed Morsi se félicitent de sa destitution. Tandis qu’autour de la place Taksim, la fronde citoyenne se poursuivait, samedi 13 juillet, les médias turcs, eux, sont braqués sur Le Caire. (suite…)
Turkish Liberals Turn Their Backs on Erdogan 20 juin 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Cengiz Çandar, Gezi Park, protests, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) Thursday, June 20, 2013, p. A 10
By Tim Arango, Istanbul
For Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the antigovernment protests that have shaken Turkey have come with a jarring paradox: some of the protesters voted for him, most prospered from his economic policies, and some of the liberal intellectuals and columnists now calling him a dictator helped him win three successive elections with their writings. (suite…)
Turkey’s Dual Challenge: The Kurdish Question and Syria 7 décembre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cengiz Çandar, Democratic Progress Institute, Kurds, Middle East, PKK, PYD, Syria, Turkey
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Democratic Progress Institute (UK) 06/12/2012, 64 p.
Cengiz Çandar *
This paper, by Cengiz Çandar, considers two major issues currently faced by Turkey: that of the Kurdish Question and that of the Syrian predicament. (suite…)