Turkey and Neighbourhood – Page 3

CESRAN Reflections on Turkey’s June 7 Parliamentary Elections by Dr. Rahman Dağ

CESRAN Int.27 June 201527 June 2015

From 2002 onwards, the AK party won a majority in every Turkish election. Erdoğan always won comfortably, whether in national elections, local votes, or the more recent presidential one. However,...

Defense & Security Turkey and Neighbourhood

Gendered (In)Securities: Refugee Camps in Southeastern Turkey

CESRAN Int.24 February 201524 February 2015

By Dr. Selin Akyüz* and Dr. Bezen Balamir Coşkun** Abstract Academic literature on security and securitization has been criticized for neglecting the significance of gender as a dimension of security....

Alp Ozerdem CESRAN Blog Turkey and Neighbourhood

Turkey Urgently Needs to Integrate Its Syrian Refugees

CESRAN Int.14 January 201514 January 2015

Since 2011, more than 3.2m Syrians are known to have taken refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and a number of other countries. The real scale of the crisis is...

CESRAN Blog Rahman Dag Turkey and Neighbourhood

Methodological differences of the PKK, KCK and HDP

CESRAN Int.25 December 201425 December 2014

Since the PKK was established an illegal, armed organization, it has always been revolutionary in the way it obtained its results regardless of a transformation from separate state to democratic...

CESRAN Blog Husrev Tabak Turkey and Neighbourhood

UNESCO as an Ethno-Political Entrepreneur: The Need for Emancipating LAVASH

CESRAN Int.13 December 201413 December 2014

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), more specifically the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, has recently decided that lavash is an intangible cultural...

CESRAN Blog Rahman Dag Turkey and Neighbourhood

Anatomy of the PKK: Violence and Self-Interest

CESRAN Int.10 December 201410 December 2014

It might be quite bold to say, but the PKK does not care about anything but the existence of Kurdish cantons in Syria. It cares about this much more than...

CESRAN Blog Husrev Tabak Turkey and Neighbourhood

Nongovernmental Humanitarianism In Turkey: The Quest For Internationalist Virtue

CESRAN Int.10 December 201410 December 2014

The last decade has been a golden age in the history of Turkey`s international humanitarian initiatives. Today, Turkey`s humanitarian aid organizations, both state institutions and civil society organizations, operate in...

CESRAN Blog Husrev Tabak Turkey and Neighbourhood

Religiously Framing Turkey’s Humanitarian and Cultural Diplomacy

CESRAN Int.30 October 201430 October 2014

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, in explaining the rationale behind the presence of multiple institutions in running Turkey's foreign affairs, articulated that "the multi-faceted foreign policy of Turkey could not be...

Alp Ozerdem CESRAN Blog Turkey and Neighbourhood

Turkey is paying for decades of divisive politics as it fights to end its civil war

CESRAN Int.22 October 201422 October 2014

When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a state of peace is hard work. The fragile state of...

Americas CESRAN Blog Ozgur Tufekci Turkey and Neighbourhood

Brazil’s Presidential Election: Impacts on Relations with Turkey

CESRAN Int.17 October 201430 October 2014

Millions of Brazilians went to the polls on Oct. 5 to elect the new president of Brazil. There were three frontrunner candidates: Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent and the leader of...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Enduring Freedom: Public Diplomacy and US Foreign Policy

CESRAN Int.31 March 201416 October 2014

By Prof. Scott Lucas On 14 October 2001, President George W. Bush complained to a prime-time press conference, “I’m amazed that there is such misunderstanding of what our country is...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Realities of the Gezi Park

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

There has been a newly emerged concept of “Gezi Parki” the meaning of which resonates in “resistance” against the AKP government and specifically to Recep Tayyib Erdogan, the Prime Minister...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Turkish Nationalists Have Hard Days Ahead

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

BY HUSREV TABAK** | 07 APRIL 2013 It has been proven that being a nationalist in a country in transition from a modernist national period to a post-national one is...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Practical Indications of the Peace Process in Full Bloom

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

The most comprehensive peace process between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bore its first fruit this spring. BY RAHMAN DAG | MARCH 24, 2013 Despite the...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Albanian Awakening: The Worm has Turned!

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Remarks articulated last week by Hakan Şükür, a famous former football player and current parliamentary deputy, garnered widespread attention and reminded the public that there are ethnic Albanians living in...