A new Turkish government has to tackle several priorities 18 juin 2015
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Armenia, Carl Bildt, Cyprus, foreign policy, parliamentary elections, PKK, Syria
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The Daily Star (Lebanon) June 18, 2015, p. 7 Deutsch Español Français
Carl Bildt *
The next administration could play a key role in a series of peace processes. Turkey is moving into unchartered political territory, following the failure of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to retain its parliamentary majority in the country’s recent general election. (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…)
What does the leftist victory in northern Cyprus mean? 28 avril 2015
Posted by Acturca in South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Sözen, Cyprus, Dervis Eroglu, Mustafa Akinci, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) Tuesday, April 28, 2015, p. 23
Yavuz Baydar
« The will for peace has won, » said Sami Özuslu, my Turk-Cypriot colleague who is an editor with SIM TV Channel. Referring to the victory rally last Sunday held by Mustafa Akinci, the newly elected president of Northern Cyprus, he sounded full of hope. (suite…)
SCORE Index Cyprus 2013 and 2014 findings 27 avril 2015
Posted by Acturca in South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est.Tags: Centre of Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development (SeeD), Cyprus, Greek Cypriots, SCORE Index, Turkish Cypriots, UNDP Action for Cooperation and Trust, USAID
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SCORE Index Executive Brief, March 2015 Ελληνικά Türkçe
The Social Cohesion and Reconciliation (SCORE) Index
The Social Cohesion and Reconciliation (SCORE) Index, developed in partnership with UNDP Action for Cooperation and Trust (UNDP-ACT), the Centre of Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development (SeeD) and USAID is an innovative tool measuring peace in multi-ethnic post conflict societies. (suite…)
Bicommunal action: an emerging power 11 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, Cyprus Academic Dialogue, George Papandréou, Hikmet Çetin, Neophytos Loizides
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Cyprus Mail, Wednesday, March 11, 2015
By Neophytos Loizides *
In the past few months no sensible pundit on the Cyprus problem would cite any positive developments at the political level; the Cypriot stalemate is deepening further each day. Yet at the grassroots level bicommunal activity at the civil society level is emerging as the critical actor (suite…)
Gas Discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for Regional Maritime Security 11 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Eric V. Thompson, Israël, Lebanon, policy brief, Sarah Vogler, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Policy Brief (German Marshall Fund of the United States) March 2015
Foreign and Security Policy Program ~ Eastern Mediterranean Energy Project
by Sarah Vogler and Eric V. Thompson *
Offshore gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean could have a profound impact on the region’s energy, economic, and geopolitical future. (suite…)
Turkey’s Policy towards Egypt and Its Deepening Isolation in the East Mediterranean 7 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Pinar Elman, PISM, Polish Institute of International Affairs
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Bulletin PISM, no 25 (757), 3 March 2015
The Polish Institute of International Affairs
Pinar Elman *
In denouncing the current Egyptian government, Turkey has become further isolated in the regional arena, especially after Qatar started shifting its position on Egypt towards one more favourable. (suite…)
Turkey, Greece to Tackle Energy Dispute 4 décembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Greece
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Voice of America News (USA) Thursday, December 4, 2014
Dorian Jones, Istanbul
Turkey’s prime minister is set to visit Greece on Friday as tensions swell among regional neighbors over energy deposits in the Mediterranean Sea. (suite…)
Cyprus partition: why it is suddenly on everyone’s lips 3 décembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, Fiona Mullen
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Financial Mirror (Cyprus) December 3-9, 2014, p. 6
By Fiona Mullen *
Three days after 24 April 2004, when the referendum on the Annan Plan was rejected by 76% of Greek Cypriots and accepted by 65% of Turkish Cypriots, I wrote the following in this newspaper about what might happen the next time (suite…)
If Rent-Seeking Stopped, Unemployment Will Double 28 novembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: AKP, Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, foreign policy, Syria
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BBC Monitoring European (UK) November 26, 2014 Türkçe
Text of report by website of Turkish liberal daily newspaper Taraf on 24 November
Interview with Prof. Ersin Kalaycioglu by Tunca Ogreten. Prof. Ersin Kalaycioglu [of Political Sciences at Sabanci University] said that the government was behaving like a bully of the region in terms of its foreign policy and warned the government. (suite…)
Can South-Eastern Mediterranean Gas be a Supply for the EU? 26 novembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, Elif Burcu Günaydin, IAI Working Papers, Israël, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Mediterranean, natural gas, South-Eastern Mediterranean
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IAI Working Papers (Istituto Affari Internazionali)14|17, November 2014, 26 p.
by Elif Burcu Günaydın *
South-Eastern Mediterranean gas fields are still under exploration and development. Meanwhile, the question of which route or routes such gas would take into the global markets remains unanswered. (suite…)
In the eastern Mediterranean, energy alone cannot improve security relationships 2 octobre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient.Tags: Allison Good, Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Greece, Israël, Jordan
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Jerusalem Post (Israel) Thursday, October 2, 2014, p. 16
By Allison Good *
Recent developments indicate that a new Eastern Mediterranean framework including Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Egypt is forming. (suite…)
Pipeline to deliver water from Turkey 29 septembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, water, water pipeline
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The Washington Times (USA) Monday, September 29, 2014, p. A10
By David R. Sands
Ambitious project offers political sway to Cyprus. It won’t carry any oil, but an ambitious pipeline project linking reservoirs in Turkey to the parched, isolated Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus could prove as politically charged as any project now underway in the region. (suite…)
Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean: promise or peril? 18 septembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Atlantic Council, Cyprus, David Koranyi, Eastern Mediterranean, Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, Greece, Israël, Lebanon, Sami Andoura
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Egmont Paper (EGMONT) No. 65, May 2014
Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations
By David Koranyi & Sami Andoura (Eds) *
The Egmont Institute and the Atlantic Council publish their Joint Report on « Energy in the Mediterranean: Promise or Peril ? », edited by Sami Andoura and David Koranyi. In order to address the different challenges and opportunities for energy cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and Levant (suite…)
Greece and the energy geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean 18 septembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, gas pipeline, geopolitics, Greece, Israël, LSE IDEAS, Theodoros Tsakiris
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LSE IDEAS – Strategic Updates, SU14.1., June 2014
London School of Economics and Political Science
Theodoros Tsakiris *
Energy cooperation that would alleviate EU gas dependence on Russian imports and (prospectively) Turkish transit could constitute such a core interest not only for Israel, Cyprus and Greece but for several leading EU member states with important interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, including Italy and more importantly France and Britain. (suite…)
Survivors of Cyprus massacres speak of the future 20 juillet 2014
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus
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BBC News (UK) Sunday 20 July 2014 Türkçe
BBC Turkish’s Hüseyin Alkan reports.
Forty years ago, on 20 July 1974, Turkish troops landed on Cyprus, in response to a Greek-led coup on the island. Despite decades of negotiations, the Turkish and Greek communities continue to live separate lives. Now it’s time for scars to heal, some say. (suite…)
40 Years after the Intervention: Turkish Public Opinion on the Cyprus Dispute 19 juillet 2014
Posted by Acturca in South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, public opinion, The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)
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Public Opinion Surveys of Turkish Foreign Policy (EDAM) Türkçe
2014/3
EDAM’s ninth public opinion survey shows that 40 years after the intervention, the Turkish public is divided on how to resolve the Cyprus issue. (suite…)
The Cyprus Peace Dividend Revisited: A Productivity and Sectoral Approach 27 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Alexander Apostolides, Cyprus, Fiona Mullen, Mustafa Besim, PRIO Cyprus Centre
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PCC Report (PRIO Cyprus Centre) 1/2014, 85 p.
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Fiona Mullen, Alexander Apostolides & Mustafa Besim *
The Cyprus Peace Dividend Revisited is a new effort to quantify the value of a solution of the Cyprus problem: to the economy as a whole, to different sectors and to individuals. In so doing, it also updates the qualitative analysis and advances earlier efforts, by exploring new approaches and linking these to the existing economic literature on the topic. (suite…)
Filori: Reforms not fast enough for EU membership 22 mai 2014
Posted by Acturca in EU / UE, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Cyprus, EU membership, European Commission, Jean-Christophe Filori, Turkey’s EU accession process
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) Wednesday, May 22, 2014, p. 4
Istanbul
Jean-Christophe Filori, the head of the Turkey unit at the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate General for Enlargement, said last week that there are three obstacles before Turkey’s European Union membership, emphasizing that Turkey’s democratic reforms have been reversed in recent times. (suite…)
Sheikh Nazim. Religious leader. Born: 1922 10 mai 2014
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion.Tags: Cyprus, Obituaries, Sheikh Nazim, Sufism
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The Independent (London, UK) Saturday, May 10, 2014, p. 40
Obituaries
Paul Levy & Chris Maume
ACTURCA 