The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire 19 Mai 2013
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire.Tags: Brian Glyn Williams, Crimean Tatar, History, military, military history, Ottoman Empire
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The Jamestown Foundation (USA) May 2013, 53 p.
Brian Glyn Williams *
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the Christian nations of Europe and the Shiites of Persia were forced to defend their lands against the inroads of an ever expanding Ottoman Empire, an empire whose awesome war machine at times appeared strong enough to absorb its immediate neighbors. (suite…)
Ataturk’s secular vision still thriving 14 février 2013
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ataturk, History, Islam, secular, Turkey
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The Irish Times, Thursday, February 14, 2013, p. 14 Türkçe
David Adams
Each morning, as dawn breaks, one awakens to the sound of the first Islamic call to prayer. The muezzin’s voice, beautifully atmospheric as it echoes and resonates about the town, will be heard another four times before midnight. (suite…)
Turkish History Revisited: Uniting or Polarizing? 30 janvier 2013
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Diba Nigar Göksel, German Marshall Fund of the United States, History, Turkey
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German Marshall Fund of the United States, January 30, 2013, 4 p.
Diba Nigar Göksel *
In and around Turkey, both the dark and glorious pages of Ottoman and Republican Turkish history are being evoked in parallel battles. (suite…)
Turkey succeeded in building « own model », says scholar 29 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: History, interview, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, İlber Ortaylı
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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, October 29, 2012, p. 6
Barçın Yinanç, Istanbul
As Turkey celebrates the 89th anniversary of the republic, a historian says Turkey is one of the few states in the Islamic world that comes close to the concept of a contemporary republic. ‘Turkey built its own model,’ says İlber Ortaylı, adding that Turkey’s recipe of secularism and modernity is attractive in the Middle East. (suite…)
Author Ibrahim Karahasan-Chynar: Turkish Minority Can and Should Have a Constructive Place in Bulgarian Society and Politics 11 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Religion, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmed Dogan, Balkans, book, Bulgaria, EU membership, History, Ibrahim Karahasan-Chynar, interview, Islam, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ottoman Empire, Roxolana, soap opera, Turkey, Turkey-EU, Turkish minority
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Novinite.com (Bulgaria) October 11, 2012, Thursday
Maria Guineva
Neighboring Turkey has always caused fierce debates in Bulgaria on the 500 years of Ottoman rule, on the interpretation of historical facts, on the Communist regime’s Revival Process to replace the names of Bulgarian Muslims with Christian ones (suite…)
How the east was lost 28 juillet 2012
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, History / Histoire, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Asia, Book Review, China, History, Mark Mazower, Pankaj Mishra, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Saturday, July 28, 2012, p. 8
FT Weekend Supplement – Life & Arts
By Mark Mazower *
Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, » wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1889. This was nothing if not wishful thinking, and no one knew it better than the poet of the imperial Raj himself: indeed, that same year Kipling visited Hong Kong and bemoaned the likely impact of bringing railways and newspapers to China. « What, » he warned, « will happen when China really wakes up? » (suite…)
The Syrian cauldron 12 juillet 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Arab Spring, History, Jeremy Salt, Middle East, NATO, Syria, Turkey, USA
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Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) Issue No. 1106, 12-18 July 2012
Jeremy Salt *
While the Western powers have their own reasons for wanting to bring down the Syrian regime, Turkey’s agenda is far less clear, writes Jeremy Salt in Ankara. (suite…)
Lessons from Ottoman past risk falling on deaf ears 25 juin 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Davutoglu, Andrew Finkel, foreign policy, History, Middle East, Ottoman Empire
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Financial Times (UK) FT Report-Turkey, June 25, 2012, p. 3
By Andrew Finkel *
It was certainly a sword-and-spear spectacular – replete with cauldrons of molten pitch and computer-enhanced biceps – but was it also an allegorical tale of eurozone decline? (suite…)
Turkey as a test case in the multipolar post-Cold War order 20 juin 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Arab Spring, Cold War, History, Middle East, Turkey, USA
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Open Democracy, 20 June 2012 Türkçe
William Armstrong *
Turkey has frequently been cited as a model for other countries in the Middle East currently undergoing an « Arab Spring ». While there are similarities among the countries of the Middle East, Turkey has had a distinct trajectory that does not make it an appropriate model. (suite…)
Tracking Turkey’s First Starchitect 10 juin 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: architect, architecture, Edirne, History, Islamic architecture, Mimar Sinan, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) June 10, 2012, p. TR9
By Andrew Ferren
“The only way to arrive at Semsi Pasha Mosque is by water,” my guide said as our little boat dodged two tankers on the Bosporus. On every shore around us, the domes and minarets of some of Istanbul’s nearly 3,000 mosques delineated the skyline of a city that looks like no other. (suite…)
Secret plan to deport troublesome Cypriot 18 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire.Tags: Archbishop Makarios, Britain, Cyprus, Greek Cypriot, History, History / Histoire, National Archives, UK
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The Times (UK) 18 April 2012, p. 13
Jack Malvern
Britain drew up a secret plan to deport a troublesome archbishop from Cyprus months before peace talks broke down, according to files released at the National Archives today. (suite…)
Historian out to explode our take on the Anzac legend 18 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: ANZAC, Australia, Çanakkale, Dardanelles strait, Gallipoli, History, History / Histoire, Hugh Dolan, military history, Turkey / Turquie, UK, War, World War I
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The Age (Australia) April 18, 2012, p. 3
Bridie Smith
The popular story of the Gallipoli landings – long credited as a young nation’s coming of age – is studded with factual errors, according to an Australian historian and former RAAF intelligence officer. (suite…)
Turkey’s Strategy 17 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Cold War, foreign policy, George Friedman, History, History / Histoire, Kurds, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Russia / Russie, Stratfor, Syria, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU, USA
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Stratfor (USA) April 17, 2012 Italiano
By George Friedman
Turkey is re-emerging as a significant regional power. In some sense, it is in the process of returning to its position prior to World War I when it was the seat of the Ottoman Empire. (suite…)
Anzac centenary organisers walk in PC minefield 27 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: ANZAC, Anzac Day, Australia, Colmar Brunton, Gallipoli, History, History / Histoire, New Zealand, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, World War I
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The New Zealand Herald, March 27, 2012, p. A10
Greg Ansley, Canberra
Commemorating our military history in a multicultural society is something of a double-edged sword. Colmar Brunton report (suite…)
Both sides of Gallipoli 23 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: ANZAC, Anzac Day, Australia, Gallipoli, History, History / Histoire, John Basarin, PHD thesis, Turkey / Turquie, Vecihi Basarin, World War I
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Geelong Advertiser (Australia) 23 March 2012, p. 25
Warwick Hadfield
A Turkish boy was taken to Gallipoli when he was just 10 years old. Now, with a PHD from Deakin University, he is taking Aussies on visits to the sacred battlefield. Warwick Hadfield reports. (suite…)
Interview with Bernard Lewis 5 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Arab Spring, Bernard Lewis, History, History / Histoire, interview, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, Turkish Policy Quarterly, women
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Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ), Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2012) Türkçe
Bernard Lewis
In this exclusive interview with TPQ, Bernard Lewis attributes Turkey’s historical progress to the practice of self-critique and to the choice of women’s empowerment. (suite…)
To understand 1915, you need to look at Balkans and Caucasus too 1 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, France, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: foreign policy, France, History, History / Histoire, Laurent Bili, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) 1 February 2012
Servet Yanatma, Ankara
In his first interview following the French Senate’s approval of the Armenian genocide denial bill, the French ambassador in Ankara has stated that in order to understand what happened in 1915, the expulsion of Turks from the Balkans and the Caucasus should be looked at, as 2.5 million Turks were also killed as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. (suite…)
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