Turkey and NATO 11 mai 2015
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Andrew C. Kuchins, Azriel Bermant, China, Gallia Lindenstrauss, Missile Defence, NATO
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Jerusalem Post (Israel) Monday, May 11, 2015, p. 15
Azriel Bermant & Gallia Lindenstrauss *
Is Turkey a liability for NATO? It certainly looks that way, as Turkey appears to be striking out against NATO interests. (suite…)
Precious loneliness works against energy interests 4 mai 2015
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: China, Cyprus, foreign policy, Turkish Stream, Volkan Ediger
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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, May 4, 2015, p. 4
Barçın Yinanç, Istanbul
Turkey cannot become an energy hub if it continues to pursue contentious relations with its neighbors, according to an energy expert. Turkey needs to have energy-focused policies so that it does not miss opportunities provided by the big changes that are taking place in global energy trends, says Professor Volkan Ediger of Kadir Has University. (suite…)
Turkey’s New Missiles of October: Defense Modernization or Political Statement? 12 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet K. Han, Can Kasapoglu, China, défense, NATO, policy brief, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Policy Brief (German Marshall Fund of the United States) March 12, 2015
Ahmet K. Han & Can Kasapoğlu *
Ankara is giving mixed signals regarding the award of an upcoming missile defense system. Will it be awarded to a defense contractor in a NATO ally country, as has traditionally been the case, or will it be awarded to a Chinese company? (suite…)
Corridor report on the Netherlands : the case of Turkish and Chinese immigrants 25 février 2015
Posted by Acturca in Immigration, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cameron Thibos, China, immigrants, INTERACT Key Findings, Jérémy Mandin, Netherlands, Sonia Gsir
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INTERACT Key Findings (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) 2015/05
European University Institute
Authors: Jérémy Mandin and Sonia Gsir * – Editor: Cameron Thibos **
This brief reports on the INTERACT project findings regarding Turkish and Chinese migrants in Netherlands. (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
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: China, Eurasia, gas pipeline, South Stream, Vladimir Putin
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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…)
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…)
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 SCO courting largely aimed at sending messages to Europe 15 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Russia / Russie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: China, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Sun Zhuangzhi
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Global Times (China) 15 January 2014, p. 15 Türkçe
By Sun Zhuangzhi *
There are lots of discussions around Turkey’s possible membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). In late November when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Russia, he openly expressed the country’s desire to join the SCO. (suite…)
Is it 1914 all over again? 5 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Austro-Hungarian Empire, China, conflicts, Germany, Margaret MacMillan, War, World War I
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Independent on Sunday (UK) Sunday, January 5, 2014, p. 24
Ian Johnston
We are in danger of repeating the mistakes that started the Great War, says a leading historian. Ian Johnston reports (suite…)
Central Asia’s Place in Turkey’s Foreign Policy 25 décembre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Carlo Frappi, Central Asia, China, foreign policy, ISPI, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, TIKA
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Analysis (ISPI) No. 225, December 2013
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI)
Carlo Frappi *
Ankara’s Central Asian policy offers a privileged perspective for analyzing the evolution of Turkey’s post-bipolar foreign policy. A key element for Turkey’s attempt to re-launch the country’s value and significance for Euro-Atlantic interlocutors after the Cold War, Central Asia progressively lost its centrality in Ankara’s foreign policy (suite…)
Turkey’s Air and Missile Defense Acquisition Journey Continues 24 octobre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: China, EDAM, NATO, Nilsu Goren, The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)
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EDAM Discussion Paper Series 2013/13, October 2013, 17 p.
Nilsu Goren *
Nilsu Gören examines Turkey’s efforts to strengthen its balistic missile defenses. Nilsu argues that given the high costs, technical limitations, and political repercussions of air and missile defense systems, Turkey should choose to remain integrated into the NATO structure (suite…)
Turkey’s Evolving Strategic Balance with China, Japan and South Korea 8 octobre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale.Tags: China, East-West Center, Japan, Selçuk Çolakoğlu, South Korea
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Asia Pacific Bulletin (East-West Center) No. 235, October 8, 2013
by Selcuk Colakoglu
Selcuk Colakoglu, Visiting Research Fellow with the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., explains that “While Turkey’s relationship with Japan and South Korea will continue to develop, it is the economic relationship with China that will continue to the primary focus for Turkish policymakers.” (suite…)
Strategic synergy for global security 5 septembre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Economy / Economie, History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: bilateral relations, China, David Gosset, Turkey
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China Daily, September 5, 2013, p. 8
By David Gosset *
Among the dynamics reshaping Eurasia, the transformation of relations between China and Turkey does not get the attention it deserves. Certainly from a Western perspective it is a geopolitical blind spot. (suite…)
Turkey can be game-maker in Iraq’s north, eastern Med 26 février 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: China, Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, energy, Iraq, Mehmet Ögütçü, Russia, USA
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Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey) February 25, 2013, p. 6
Barçın Yinanç
Iraq’s north and the eastern Mediterranean are the two regions where Turkey can be a game-changer in the world’s energy outlook, a prominent expert says. ‘Turkey can contribute to the rewriting of the rules of the game,’ says Mehmet Ögütçü, noting that it will otherwise be playing a game written by others (suite…)
The Mediterranean Region in a Multipolar World: Evolving Relations with Russia, China, India, and Brazil 19 février 2013
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Arlene Clemesha, Brazil, BRIC, China, Daniela Huber, India, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Li Guofu, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Paper Series, Mediterranean Policy Program, MENA, Middle East, P.R. Kumaraswamy, Russia, Vladimir Bakhtin
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Mediterranean Paper Series (German Marshall Fund of the United States) Feb. 2013
Vladimir Bakhtin, Arlene Clemesha, Li Guofu, Daniela Huber, P.R. Kumaraswamy
With the United State’s unipolar moment waning, the global power structure is changing. Nowhere is this felt more acutely than in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). (suite…)
Natural gas as the game-changer: implications for, and actions from, Turkey 25 janvier 2013
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Caucasus, China, energy, gas, Mehmet Ögütçü, Middle East, Russia, Turkey, USA
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) 24 January 2013, p. 14
by Mehmet Öğütçü *
Over the past 20 years we have gone through a series of fundamental “game-changing” developments in almost every domain of our lives, be it in economy, geopolitics, security, technology or values. (suite…)
Where Commerce and Politics Collide 8 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: China, David Gordon, economy, Ian Bremmer, Iran, Middle East, Syria, trade, Turkey, USA
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The New York Times (USA) Monday, October 8, 2012
By Ian Bremmer & David Gordon *
Whatever happened to the reassuring view that expanding trade ties make for a safer and more prosperous world? (suite…)
Can Istanbul produce its own Armani or Versace? Made in Turkey 2 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: China, economy, Fashion, Hussein Chalayan, textile, Turkey, Turkish Clothing Manufacturers Association
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Financial Times (UK) Tuesday, October 2, 2012, p. 10
Daniel Dombey
Fifteen hundred years ago the Byzantine empire stole the secret of making silk from China. The capture of the mulberry silkworm may have seemed a frivolous breakthrough for some – the great historian Edward Gibbon lamented that instead the Byzantines should have learnt from the Chinese how to operate a printing press, writes Daniel Dombey. (suite…)
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