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Turkey’s elections: AKP loses absolute majority, thwarts Erdogan’s bid for executive presidency 8 juin 2015

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Expert Comment (The Elcano Royal Institute) 40/2015, 8 June 2015
Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos

William Chislett *

Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its absolute parliamentary majority for the first time since sweeping to power in 2002, and with it Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambition for greater power by changing the constitution to become an executive president. (suite…)

Should the EU suspend Turkey’s accession negotiations? 17 décembre 2014

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Expert Comment (The Elcano Royal Institute) 69/2014, 17 December 2014
Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos

William Chislett *

The arrest of Turkish journalists, media executives and even the scriptwriter of a popular television series, ostensibly for ‘forming, leading and being a member of an armed terrorist organisation’, brought a swift rebuke from the European Commission and raised the question of whether Turkey’s EU painfully slow accession negotiations should be suspended. (suite…)

Turkey’s EU accession: trying harder, but still failing 10 octobre 2014

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Expert Comment (Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos) 60/2014, 10/10/2014

William Chislett *

The EU’s annual report on Turkey’s accession negotiations, which have advanced at a snail’s pace since they were opened nine years ago this month, is like an end-of-term student report card. (suite…)

Turkey: Erdogan to run in first direct presidential election 2 juillet 2014

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Expert Comment (Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos) 45/2014, 2/7/2014

William Chislett *

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister for the last 11 years and an increasingly authoritarian and polarising figure, will, as expected, run in the country’s first direct election for the presidency on 10 August. (suite…)

Turkey’s Economy Slows Down: Will this Affect Spain’s Burgeoning Trade and Investment? 16 janvier 2013

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Analysis of the Real Instituto Elcano (ARI) 2/2013, 16/1/2013
Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos (Spain)

William Chislett *

Like Spain, the Turkish economy became overheated and growth is still high by EU standards. Spanish exports have risen by more than 30% over the last five years, making Turkey the second-largest non-EU market after the US, and in 2011 Turkey was the main destination of Spain’s direct investment abroad. (suite…)

The EU’s Progress Report on Turkey: No End in Sight 12 octobre 2012

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Analysis of the Real Instituto Elcano (ARI) 63/2012, 12/10/2012
Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos (Spain)

William Chislett *

Such is the current stalemate, seven years after accession talks began and with no new chapter opened since Spain’s EU Presidency in 2010, that the report is hardly noticed. Nevertheless, it remains a useful roadmap of what Turkey has achieved and needs to do. (suite…)

Spain and Turkey: a budding relation 15 avril 2009

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Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos (Spain), 15/4/2009 
 
By William Chislett * 
 
Spain and Turkey are enjoying a burgeoning economic and political relation. Two-way trade more than doubled between 2002 and 2008 –excluding the EU, Turkey is Spain’s third most important trade partner after the US and Mexico (suite…)

Lecciones españolas para Turquía 18 février 2009

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El Pais (España), 18/02/2009                                                  Türkçe

William Chislett *

Llama la atención las numerosas similitudes entre Turquía y España, uno de los pocos países que activamente apoya el ingreso de la nación musulmana en la Unión Europea y que a partir de este año formará parte del pequeño grupo de países con quien Ankara mantendrá una cumbre anual. (suite…)

Spain: A source of inspiration for Turkey? 11 décembre 2008

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EurActiv.com, Thursday 11 December 2008

William Chislett, Royal Elcano Institute

Spain should be regarded as a model for Turkey’s EU membership process, argues William Chislett, a researcher at the Royal Elcano Institute, a Spanish think tank, in a publication for the Turkish branch of the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation. (suite…)