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Source : Qantara.de
How do Islamists and Kemalists in Turkey today deal with the laicistic inheritance of the state’s founder Kemal Ataturk? And what are the ideal forms of state and society which lie behind their positions? An analysis by Bekim Agai.
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New Islamic politics ? The AKP
The AKP won a landslide victory in the general election on 3rd November, 2002, and the fact that smaller parties failed to get into parliament because of the rule that a party must (...)
Source : Qantara.de
How do Islamists and Kemalists in Turkey today deal with the laicistic inheritance of the state’s founder Kemal Ataturk? And what are the ideal forms of state and society which lie behind their positions? An analysis by Bekim Agai.
On 29th October, 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in Ankara. Its first president was Mustafa Kemal, later named Atatürk. The old caliphate gave way to a laicistic nation state, with new state structures and a new legal system. For (...)
Source : Qantara.de 2007
At the close of 2006, the EU commission presented its progress report on Turkey’s accession to the EU, identifying the country’s achievements as well as failures. Andreas Marchetti reports on the background and prospects of the negotiations.
Instead of emotionally overburdening individual issues, the reasons for wanting accession must be made clearer, Marchetti argues.
In its progress report presented last November 8, the commission clearly issued stern words of (...)
Source : Le Monde, 26-01-2007
A travers les colonnes de son journal, Agos, rédigé en turc et en arménien et publié depuis plus de dix ans à Istanbul, le journaliste Hrant Dink, assassiné le 19 janvier, était l’homme qui avait enfin sorti la voix arménienne de son silence. Il la faisait entendre bien au-delà des frontières communautaires. Serein, il injectait avec constance de la mémoire là où n’existait que du déni, fissurant chaque jour un peu plus le mur froid et aveugle de l’amnésie collective. Pour (...)
Source : Le Figaro.fr, le 27/01/2007
L’Arménie doit conjurer enfin son alliance faustienne avec les éléments les plus terroristes de l’ex-URSS et du monde arabe.
Au-delà de la douleur personnelle que peut inspirer la mort pathétique d’un Juste, l’assassinat de l’écrivain arménien de Turquie Hrant Dink a aussi consterné tous ceux qui, sans le connaître, se rendaient compte de l’importance de son rôle politique.
Arménien, fier de l’être et sans ressentiments, Hrant, qui provenait d’une petite ville de (...)
Source : The New Anatolian, 20-01-2007
The developments regarding Kirkuk are likely to shape Turkey’s domestic politics in the coming days. Western observers are skeptical about the prospects of a materialization of Turkish nationalist discourse on northern Iraq. In other words, despite the rhetoric, Western observers think that given the political reality on the ground, Turkey’s ability to interfere with the region should Kirkuk become a part of the regional Kurdish government following (...)
Source : The New Anatolian
Ismail Cem, a former Turkish foreign minister, who together with his Greek counterpart was the driving force behind the thawing relations between the two archrivals, has died of lung cancer, last wendnesday (24-01-2006). He was buried yesterday in Istanbul.
Cem served as foreign minister under three successive governments between 1997 and 2003, becoming the longest serving Turkish foreign minister in recent years. His greatest achievement was forging close ties (...)
Despite a long history of tension and conflict of interests economic and political relations
between Turkey and Russia have deepened significantly. This article provides a comprehensive account of the bilateral relationship and argues that the convergence between Russia and Turkey is the result of the two states’ shared defensiveness vis-à-vis the shaping of a new Europe that appears to exclude them and shared apprehension with U.S. policies. The most influential factor in determining the (...)
Source : Le Monde, 25-01-2007
Quelques semaines après la décision prise par l’Union européenne (UE), le 11 décembre 2006, de suspendre partiellement les négociations d’adhésion avec la Turquie, celle-ci a décidé d’ouvrir elle-même, unilatéralement, les huit chapitres gelés par Bruxelles.
Il s’agit d’avancer sur la voie des réformes, explique au Monde l’ambassadeur d’Ankara auprès de l’Union, Volkan Bozkir. Autrement dit, en se fondant sur la première phase des négociations, le gouvernement va continuer ses (...)
Source : Critikat.com
Quatre ans après Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan signe Les Climats, un film poignant et juste, très maîtrisé, qui use avec subtilité des potentialités offertes par la Haute Définition (HD). Sur fond de soleil, pluie, neige, conduit par le fil du son, aiguillage impitoyable, trace vivante, se déroule la tapisserie des saisons : chronique du désamour, des variations sensorielles, du temps qui passe et des gens qui restent.
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Uzak (« Lointain ») déjà, usait de la (...)