Turkey & The EU- Stronger Together? - Turkish Policy Quarterly

Turkey & The EU - Stronger Together?, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
In this issue, TPQ takes up three interrelated themes, Turkey’s EU accession pro-cess, home grown democratization, and potential synergies created in the foreign policy realm. Just as progress in each of these policy arenas reinforces the...

Nigâr Göksel

Interview with Patriarch Bartholomew I, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
Patriarch Bartholomew I

Patriarch Bartholomew I

Turkey and Germany: A Unique Partnership for Freedom and Prosperity in Europe, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
Internal reforms towards a more lively democracy, more effective state institutions, transparent courts accessible to all, are not first and foremost in the interest of the European Union, but in the interest of the people of Turkey. Achieving...

Guido Westwerwelle

The Role of European Union in the Wider Black Sea Region, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
The article deals mainly with the importance of EU involvement in the wider Black Sea region, the main European policies and initiatives related to this region (the Black Sea Synergy, the European Neighborhood Policy, the Eastern Partnership, the EU...

Bogdan Aurescu

Zero Problems? Time for a New Policy Narrative, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
The uprisings in the Middle East have prompted important questions about the future role of Turkey in the region as well as on the state of play at home. While Turkey has been presented as an inspiration or a model, not in the least by Turkey...

Marietje Schaake

EU and Turkey versus the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
As the Turkish Cypriot people of the island of Cyprus, we were not instrumental for the culmination of the inter-communal troubles in 1963 and 1974. Despite this fact, we are the victims that have been suffering since 1963. We have even been deprived...

Serdar Denktaş

Turkey's Women in the EU Process, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
In Turkey, women are the ones who suffer most from the growing trend towards a new type of ultra conservatism which does not consider women and men equal in the words of the Prime Minister. In order to address this problem, and in the wake of the...

Gülsün Bilgehan

Turkey's Future Reforms and the European Union, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
The European Union (EU) has played a critical role in Turkey’s reform process since the end of the Cold War but over time it has become less central a factor in Turkey’s internal transformation. The goals of “Europeanization”...

Emiliano Alessandri

Migration Debates in Europe: Migrants as Anti- Citizens, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
This article tries to reveal the recent debates revolving around the issue of migration in Europe, and claims that migration has recently become securitized and stigmatized in a way that prompts the autochthonous societies to generate a set of...

Ayhan Kaya

Who Really Wants a ''Muslim Democracy''?, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
The term “Muslim democracy” is an oxymoron because democracies by definition cannot take religion as a reference point. It is also unfair to the religion because in a Muslim democracy, democracy deficits will be attributed to Islam. These...

Kadri Gürsel

Ergenekon and Sledgehammer:Building or Undermining the Rule of Law?, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
Turkey’s legal system was reformed significantly during the last decade, with the avowed objective of aligning it with European norms and facilitating the country’s accession to the European Union. On paper, Turkey now has a legal regime...

Dani Rodrik

Defining Tobacco Control As an Important Human Right and Development Goal, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to advance tobacco control within a powerful rights and development framework in Turkey. The integration of a human rights based approach to the control of tobacco is a powerful tool in the protection of the rights...

Rangita de Silva de Alwis and Richard Daynard

Risks of Appeasement: The Failure of the East and the West in the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
The 12 editorial cartoons of the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in 2005 should not be considered an insult to the Muslim world. Therefore, appeasement to extreme reactions by the Muslim community, such as the apology of the Politiken newspaper in...

Germenis Panagis

Quid Pro Quo in Turkey's South Caucasus Politics, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
Turkey is one of the most dynamically developing states of Eurasia. No longer a passive respondent, it is firmly defining its priorities in this huge area while it revises the main directions of its foreign policy. Under the AKP, which came to power...

Gayane Novikova

Imagınıng a Post American World: The European Union as the New Super Power?, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011
Today a country seeking to fill the U.S.’ position has to have great influence, tremendous resources, a universal ideology and strong political will in order to succeed. The EU may be a regional power that is influential over Eurasia, yet in...

Ümit Kurt

The Agenda: Regional Developments, Reports, and Events February-April 2011, Spring 2011Sunday, June 5, 2011

Richard Giragosian

Turkey & The EU- Stronger Together?Vol. 10 No. 1 - Spring 2011

Turkey & The EU- Stronger Together?
Vol. 10 No. 1 - Spring 2011