09 - Articles de septembre 2007

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  The Kurdish Nationalism: Risks and Opportunities between Globalization, Islamization, and Localization

  18 September 2007, by Emre Uslu

  The existence of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has become a risk factor for the Kurdish nationalist discourse since the international communities have taken a new approach against terror after September 11 2001. In order to elaborate how the PKK became a risk factor it is needed to be examined how the PKK managed to become the largest Kurdish nationalist organization.
  Kurdish nationalist organizations were divided into at least 7 groups in 1970s and 1980s after the military (...)

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  Top court quashes acquittal of Kaboğlu, Oran

  17 September 2007, by Emine Kart

  The Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday quashed an earlier decision by a local court in Ankara which acquitted two prominent academics last year over a government-sponsored report criticizing the treatment of minority groups.
  The decision concerning İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of law, and Baskın Oran, a professor of international relations, was made with a majority vote by members of the top court, the Anatolia news agency reported. Oran called the decision by the court “basically a (...)

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  Turkey is vital to Europe’s future

  14 September 2007, by David Miliband

  In the 20th century, Britain’s national security came under threat from hostile nations. Today, the threat is from terrorist groups, such as al-Qa’eda, operating within failed states, seeking to fracture the world along religious lines.
  By David Miliband *
  The response by the police and the Army, at home and abroad, is necessary, but on its own not enough. To marginalise extremists, we have to address causes as well as symptoms.
  We must tackle the gulf of understanding and empathy that too (...)

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  Will AKP change Iraq policy ?

  12 September 2007, by Barçin Yinanç

  Retired Ambassador Yalım Eralp is said to have a collection of interesting examples of crypto documents from the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s internal correspondence. Had he worked under the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), he would have added some precious items to his collection.
  One of the most valuable would have been the crypto documents detailing the conversation between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, during the Israeli (...)

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  Sarkozy’s interesting message on Turkey

  11 September 2007, by Mehmet Ali Birand

  France is not changing its basic point of view, but adopts a more flexible general attitude. It brings forward its relationships with Turkey and suggests a new formula.
  We were so involved in our own affairs last week that we paid no attention to external developments. We were busy discussing who was or wasn’t at which reception and which general didn’t salute whom. We almost became body language experts. Yet there were important developments in Turkish-French relations. French President (...)

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  Ankara doit adhérer en 2023

  10 septembre 2007, par Cengiz Aktar

  Le centenaire de la fondation de la République de Turquie serait un horizon raisonnable pour l’entrée du pays dans l’Union européenne.
  Au soir de sa victoire électorale le 22 juillet, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Premier ministre sortant et leader de l’AKP [Parti de la justice et du développement, issu du mouvement islamiste, ndlr] a évoqué en une phrase le redémarrage des négociations pour l’adhésion à l’Union européenne commencées en octobre 2005. Son gouvernement, en 2003 et 2004 a beaucoup fait en ce sens (...)

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  Abdullah Gül, nouvelle ère en Turquie

  4 septembre 2007, par Sophie Shihab

  Il est difficile de surestimer l’importance de l’accession à la tête de l’Etat turc, en toute conformité avec les règles démocratiques et conformément à la constitution du pays, d’un proeuropéen éprouvé, issu du mouvement islamiste.
  Clôturant quatre mois de crise politique ouverte, l’élection au Parlement, mardi 28 août, d’Abdullah Gül à la présidence de la République « laïque et démocratique » de Turquie marque un tournant historique, ouvrant de grandes chances pour la Turquie et toute la région, soulignaient (...)

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  Impressions on Turkey’s General Elections 2007

  3 September 2007, by Yüksel Söylemez

  An interview with Yüksel Söylemez, a former Turkish diplomat. Since February 1999, he joined Turkish Foreign Policy Institute as Co-chairman. He is the editor of Turkish Foreign Policy at the U.N
  What are your first impressions ? Soylemez :
  In one word positive. It was a historic popular event. A defining moment in Turkish politics. Historic because AK Party registered a landslide. Historic because AK Party did not lose votes, as was generally expected and hoped for by some, not to say the (...)

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