CESRAN Int.

The Turkish brand of Islamism is well-suited to the post-ideological phase that the Middle East region is entering. It is also confirmation of the view that Olivier Roy enunciated 20-odd...

Written by DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY Friday, 28 October 2011 18:54 On October 22, a group of armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members crossed into Turkey from Iraq and killed twenty-four...

Written by AENGUS COLLINS Friday, 28 October 2011 06:01 And so the inevitable has come to pass. Turkey’s central bank has departed from its controversial commitment to a loose policy...

BY KADRI KAAN RENDA | 07.09.2011 Turkey is one of the states who recognized Israel shortly after its proclamation of independence in 1949. Up until the early 1990s Turkey-Israel relations...

BY MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ* | 19.08.2011 Imagine the world 12 years down the road – the world of 2023 which corresponds to the centenary of the founding of the Republic of...

BY AZEEM IBRAHIM** | 18.08.2011 Turkey's secular democracy is increasingly establishing itself as a fulcrum for East-West relations, notably as a bridge to Iran and Syria. Its pending application to...

BY DR. H. AKIN UNVER** | 08.06.2011     Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been undergoing an important and profound transformation since May 2010, which began with the resignation of...

BY DR. BAŞAK ALPAN | 02.06.2011 ‘La Beaute est dans la Rue’ (‘the Beauty is in the Street’) Ernesto Laclau During the mid-May demonstrations in Spain where protesters of all...

BY PROF. ZIYA ONIS The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the AKP) government’s foreign policy activism is not a new phenomenon. Yet, the changing nature of the...

BY AENGUS COLLINS | 20.04.2011 On June 12 Turkey’s electorate will go to the polls in the country’s 17th general election. In each of the last two elections, in 2002 and...

By Dr. H. Akin Unver and Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 04.04.2011 While the Turkish Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) record on democracy and foreign policy is less than perfectly in accord with...

By Dr. Başak Alpan 13 January 2011   "The white cracker who wrote the [American] national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note...

By Nilay Özlü | 20 December 2010 This paper aims to scrutinize the use and abuse of historical figures for ideological purposes, which happens to be a very common practice in...

By Dr. Tim Jacoby | 18 December 2010 Turkey's incumbent Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) government was elected at a pivotal moment. The catastrophic earthquake of 1999...

By Mehmet Celebi | 18 December 2010   On September 12, 22 million Turks voted a resounding "Yes" and thus endorsed a constitutional amendment package that could open wider the door...