"Turkey won't accept EU's limes strategy
[MONDAY TALK] Sanberk: Turkey won't accept EU's limes strategy
The approaching French term presidency of the European Union will make 2008 a stressful year for Turkey, but "no" is not an answer for Turks, and Turkey will not accept the EU's "limes strategy," according to Özdem Sanberk, a former Foreign Ministry undersecretary and foreign policy analyst.This a bit surprising:
Paris will push for EU enlargement
France is to become a champion of further enlargement of the bloc, according to the French minister for Europe, in a change of approach likely to ease the accession of new membersFrance open to further EU enlargement
No excuses for failing to pursue reforms
In view of the slowing and uneven implementation of EU reforms in Turkey, an increasing number of observers are arguing that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government has lost much of its interest in EU accession.301 coming to Parliament floor
The government is preparing to submit a bill to Parliament this week for amendments to Article 301 of the Turkish penal code, which the European Union says stifles free speech. The Justice MinistryBUT
Cabinet leaves 301 for later despite expectations
"Cabinet leaves 301 for later despite expectationsMinister of Justice Mehmet Ali Şahin said he would submit to the Cabinet a bill amending Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which has been used extensively by ultranationalists to curb free speech, but the ministers did not take up the issue when they met yesterday, according to a statement by government spokesperson Cemil Çiçek on Monday evening."
Turkey's role in European energy security
Turkey and the EU should develop a strategic energy cooperation plan, not just for pipelines but also for renewables, energy efficiency and market liberalisation, according to Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform.Turks In Europe
BY ERDAL SAFAK
SABAH- The dream or hope of a common Turkish future with Europe is growing more distant each day, due to Europeans’ policy of exclusion. What’s more, these policies target not only Turks living in Turkey, but also Turks living abroad. The treatment that Europeans consider us worthy of is known. For example, citizens of all European Union candidate countries are given the right of free movement, but Turks are excluded from this. For example, while the existing Customs Union is based on the free movement of goods, services and labor, the free movement of labor or people is rejected for Turkey. What’s more, people predict that even if Turkey joins the European Union one day, this free movement of people will never happen."
EU presidency calls for continued membership talks with Turkey - Europe
EU cultural legislation in Turkish
The European Union cultural legislation, one of the most significant subject headings in Turkey-EU negotiations, has been translated into Turkish. The 848-page book, published with the collaboration ofWomen reject Ankara's idea of 'protection'
Women's suffrage was introduced in Turkey in 1934, a decade before it arrived in France. Successive constitutions have reaffirmed gender equality and in 2004 the...Yusuf Kanlı: No letup in reform drive
Some things are changing in Turkey, or so appear to us. After the latest Diyarbakır carnage, unlike those routine and highly rhetorical statements the political and military leaders of the country were issuing after each and every attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), almost no one in the country spoke about taking revenge but instead almost all statements focused on the fact that the attack did not aim only at the Turkish military but civilians at the same time; not ethnic Turks alone, but ethnic Kurds as well and thus the PKK has indeed unveiled its true ugly face and proved that it is an enemy of the entire country.Also, in their remarks, Turkish leaders did not talkDiyarbakır attack shouldn't disrupt reforms
Murat YETKİNTough days for Karamanlis on the eve of Ankara visit
Ariana FERENTINOUTurquie, Balkans : le verrou du référendum
Le Figaro (France), 7 janvier 2008, p. 14
Par Henri Froment-Meurice *
« Les musulmans balkaniques sont laïques et partie prenante de notre civilisation européenneZarcone, Thierry, La Turquie moderne et l’islam, Paris, Flammarion, 2004, 262 p.
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (France), N° 111-112, mars 2006, pp. 295-300
Élisabeth Longuenesse
À l’heure où la question de l’entrée de la Turquie dans l’Europe provoque les crispations que l’on sait, au prétexte de la menace que ferait courir à l’identité européenne l’arrivée de 80 millions de musulmans, l’ouvrage de Thierry Zarcone, publié chez un éditeur grand public, vient à propos éclairer un débat faussé par l’ignorance et les préjugés.ARMENIAN PROGRAMS ON TURKISH TV
The public television of Turkey is planning to broadcast programs in 8 languages this year. Minister Mehmed Aydin, commenting on the initiative, said that in general the multilingual programs shall cover the information sphere. He said that it is also possible that the Public Television of Turkey shall broadcast programs in Armenian. According to information spread by CNN-Turk, the programs in Armenian language shall be mostl
