The AKP’s Hamas Policy III: Countering Radicalization
By Soner Cagaptay | 9 July 2010 For Turks today, after seven years of propaganda, Hamas appears to be a good organization as it has been a guest in Istanbul seven times...
The AKP’s Hamas Policy II: “Us vs. Them”
By Soner Cagaptay | 5 July 2010 At home, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has promoted the Islamist mindset of "us Muslims" in conflict with "the bad others" through the...
The AKP’s Hamas Policy I: How Turkey Turned
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 29 June 2010 Turkey has not traditionally boasted strong popular support for Hamas, or any other groups with a violent Islamist agenda. Turks generally have had an...
Let’s not Forget History’s Lessons
By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 14 July 2010 Reply to Dr. Cagaptay's Article (Turkey Lost Turkey) “When Ataturk established the CHP in the 1920s, his vision was to make Turkey European”[1]. Yes it...
Turkey Lost Turkey
By Soner Cagaptay | 12 July 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama last week partly blamed the European Union for supposedly driving Turkey away from the West by stalling the country's EU accession....
The Bigger Picture: Israel-Turkey Relations in Context
By Dr. Guy Burton | 20 June 2010 The fallout from the Gaza flotilla debacle at the end of May provides an opportunity to consider the relative positions of Israel and Turkey...
Turkey Still Needs The West
By Walter Russell Mead | 15 June 2010 In an earlier post, I wrote about the emergence of Turkey and Brazil on the world stage. Since then, the ‘terrible twins’ voted against...
Terrible Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign Policy
By Walter Russell Mead | 05 June 2010 These days, there’s an unusual spectacle in world affairs. The United States has relatively good relations with the major powers: China, the EU...
Turkey’s Clash of Civilizations
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 08 June 2010 Ever since the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy has made a 180-degree turn. The country's once-strong...
Turkey’s New Political Balance: Old AKP and New Kemalism
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 20 May 2010 Turkey's protracted political battle between the governing Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and its opponents reached a crescendo this month with the...
But parliamentary ratification of the deal has stalled in both countries
But parliamentary ratification of the deal has stalled in both countries over the contentious issue of World War I-era killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, which Yerevan insists constituted genocide...
Introduction
This paper argues that Turkey’s experience with economic crisis in 2001 demonstrates the effects of the investment model of economic development interacting simultaneously with the liquidity model. Investment model focuses on pull...
TURKEY FOCUS
TURKEY FOCUS Turkey Focus section has been launched to update researchers who have interests in Turkey and its neighbourhood by CESRAN. In this section, you can find updated information and...
Democracy Programme
The CESRAN Research Programme for Studies in Democracy is primarily concerned with policy briefings. Researchers, practitioners and students of democracy are heartily encouraged to submit commentary between 800 and 3000...
Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)
We are now in an era in which nation-state boundaries are disappearing and socio-cultural and economic interactions between human beings are increasing rapidly. This is such an era that a...