Category: Turkey and Neighbourhood

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...

By Dr. H. Akin Unver | 10 December 2010 Turkey's September 12, 2010 Constitutional Amendment referendum was perhaps one of the most socially polarizing episodes in its modern history. A slightly...

By George Friedman | 23 November 2010   Editor's note: This is the fifth installment in a series of special reports that Dr. Friedman will write over the next few weeks...

By Dr. Basak Alpan | 12 October 2010 Although Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan made it clear that the new constitution will only be drafted after the parliamentary elections of June 2011,...

By Muharrem EKSI | 11 October 2010 Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s four-day visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan reawoke debates dealing with Turkey’s increasing role in Afghanistan once again. Intensifying mutual visits...