Semih Idiz

Articles de cet auteur (7)

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  A new climate for solving the Kurdish problem

  17 January 2008

  The Turkish military’s operations aimed at the remote mountainous regions of northern Iraq, where the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has found safe haven for itself, have changed the psychological climate in Turkey. The fact that these operations have not been met with widespread international condemnation has also come as something of a shock for northern Iraqi Kurds.
  Ankara’s diplomacy on this score, marked by a prolonged period of patience and inaction – which the PKK no doubt (...)

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  A sudden rush of awareness on Kurdish rights

  22 November 2007

  Judging by what former commanders are saying now, Turkey’s approach to the Kurdish issue was fundamentally flawed from the start
  Winston Churchill is reputed to have said of the American’s that “they always get it right” going on to add, after a brief pause for effect, “eventually!” One wonders if the same might not be said of Turks. After all we, too, have a Turkish saying - “Türkün aklı sonra başına gelir” - which more or less translates into what Churchill said of the Americans, except that it is (...)

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  The EU summit : is it to be a multi-speed union?

  3 July 2007

  If a multi-speed EU is what in fact does emerge over the next 15 to 20 years, then the blockages against Turkey, emanating most notably from France, could also become irrelevant over time.
  There are three perspectives from which we can look at the results of the latest EU summit in Brussels. The first is from the perspective of Europhiles and Eurocrats. The second is from that of Eurosceptics and hardcore realists. The third is from the perspective of Eurohopeful Turkey.
  Judging by (...)

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  France and its anomalies

  27 March 2007

  Source : TDN, 22/03/2007
  The more one learns about France the more one finds out what a strange and inconsistent country this is.
  We are dealing with a nation here that does not refrain from legislating other peoples’ history (as if history could be legislated). We saw this clearly with the now dead bill passed earlier this year – “dead” because it was not endorsed in time – which tried to criminalize the claim that an Armenian genocide did not happen.
  And yet when Algerians demand an (...)

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  Searching for the enemy

  12 February 2007

  Source : TNA
  A climate of nationalism mixed with racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia is dangerously taking hold of Turks, largely due to power-hungry politicians desperately seeking to gain votes for their parties in this election year.
  The country appears increasingly to be searching for an enemy in the belief that this will somehow be “revitalizing and replenishing for the nation.” This of course is the parlance of fascism. This country has even had politicians in the recent past, the (...)

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  Enter right, ’The New Europe’

  20 January 2007

  Source : Turkish Daily News, 11-01-2007
  Romania and Bulgaria’s “contributions” to Europe started immediately and can be expected to continue apace. Thanks to the fascists in these new EU members, the xenophobic, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic far right now has the necessary numbers to form a group in the European Parliament. According to the Guardian newspaper, Bulgaria’s quota of European Parliament seats includes one held by the extreme right Ataka Party of Volen Siderov, which (...)

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  Athènes ne veut pas de crise entre la Turquie et l’Union européenne

  26 mai 2006

  © Traduction : Département de Français Université Anadolu à Eskişehir
  © Milliyet, le 8 avril 2006
  Turquie Européenne se lance par cette publication dans une collaboration avec les étudiants en Français de l’Université d’ Eskişehir (Anatolie entre Istanbul et Ankara). Ils nous proposent la traduction d’un éditorial de Semih Idiz revenant sur le renforcement et l’irréversibilité de la solidarité turco-grecque, qu’elle soit économique ou politique.
  C’est la même chose dans les relations humaines : si vous (...)