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IS IRAN GOING NUCLEAR? – MUSTAFA KİBAROĞLU

IS IRAN GOING NUCLEAR? (*)                                                           MUSTAFA KİBAROĞLU This paper will focus on Iran’s nuclear program in general and...

Turkish Stand on the Gulf Crisis, Middle East and Europe – TURGUT ÖZAL

Turkish Stand on the Gulf Crisis, Middle East and Europe (*) TURGUT ÖZAL Neither the European Community nor the Western European Union may reach their netural and logical boundaries without Turkish presence.   It is a great...

Turkey’s Policy towards Iraq in the post-Saddam era – Tarık Oğuzlu

Turkey’s Policy towards Iraq in the post-Saddam era   Tarık Oğuzlu   US Policy in Iraq during 2003-2006 US Policy during 2003-2006 period can be described a pro-Kurdish, as Kurdish groups received strong US support....

STRENGTHENING THE POLITICAL COHESION OF THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE – İlter Türkmen

STRENGTHENING  THE   POLITICAL COHESION OF THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE (*) İlter Türkmen The political cohesion of the Alliance is a concept which goes beyond harmonization or concertation of foreign policy attitudes and...

DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE ATLANTIC COMMUNITY AND TURKEY – Muharrem Nuri Birgi

Security   DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE ATLANTIC COMMUNITY AND TURKEY (*) The “Atlantic Community” is an expression of  the unity of destiny and the identity of interest between the United States, Canada and Europe brought forth...

35. Anniversary Issue – Cold War Years -Seyfi Taşhan

Cold War Years TURKEY’S RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. AND POSSIBLE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS (*) Seyfi Taşhan Foreign policy formation in the United States is not always determined solely by military exigencies and Turkish-U.S....

US Policy and the Iraq Time Bomb Prof. Dr. Hüseyin BAĞCI – 25 March 2002, Turkish News

US Policy and the Iraq Time Bomb Prof. Dr. Hüseyin BAĞCI – 25 March 2002, Turkish News When Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote his three consecutive articles in the National Interest in 2000 under the titles ‘Living with a New...

Are Saddam Hussein’s days numbered? Prof. Dr. Hüseyin BAĞCI – 11 February 2002, Turkish Daily News

Are Saddam Hussein’s days numbered? Prof. Dr. Hüseyin BAĞCI – 11 February 2002, Turkish Daily News Turkey is once again in the line of focus since the “letter exchange” between Turkish Prime Minister...

Sharon and Arafat: No Angels!! The Middle East is in a state of permanent terror and tension with no end in sight. In the last few days, the whole world has been witnessing a dimension of hate in a different way, where civilians are now the main and permanent object of radical Islamic groups, and Yasser Arafat has never been in such a domestically weak position in his entire political life as is the case today. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin BAĞCI – 25 January 2002, Turkish Daily New

Sharon and Arafat: No Angels!! The Middle East is in a state of permanent terror and tension with no end in sight. In the last few days, the whole world has been witnessing a dimension of hate in a different way, where civilians...

“SYRIANS in TURKEY: FROM EMERGENCY AID POLICIES TO INTEGRATION POLICIES”

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. MURAT ERDOGAN Director, Hacettepe University Migration and Politics Research Centre-HUGO   “SYRIANS in TURKEY: FROM EMERGENCY AID POLICIES TO INTEGRATION POLICIES”   The Hacettepe University...

A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIDDLE EAST (INTERVIEW WITH PROF. MELIHA ALTUNIŞIK – HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT OF METU),(MAY, 2007)

Introduction and Question: Our topic now is the Middle East, a general perspective and perspectives for the near future. The speaker will be Prof. Meliha Altunışık. Head of the International Relations Department of the Middle...