"‘Turkey sides with EU on most foreign policy issues’
[MONDAY TALK]‘Turkey sides with EU on most foreign policy issues’
Paul Luif, a senior researcher from the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), has conducted an interesting study on EU foreign policy, finding that Turkey's decisions on most issues of foreign policy are in line with the EU majority.
Future scenarios for Cyprus
I was in northern Cyprus on March 13 and 14 to attend a panel organized by the Cyprus Policy Center (CPC) of the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). During the visit I had the opportunity to meet the new president of the EMU, Professor Tahir Çelik, who gave me some very interesting information about higher education in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC).Turkey Is Also Europe!
TURKEY IS ALSO EUROPE! (translated and summarised)
The declarations of Valery Giscard d'Estaing against the integration of Turkey to the European Union caused embarrassment, anger or satisfaction with Convention on the future of Europe which the former French president directs and who sat as a plenary session in Brussels. Valery Giscard d'Estaing indeed decided firmly against the integration of Turkey in the EU, by estimating in an interview published by Le Monde that it would mark "the end of the European Union" (sic). The Convention on the future of Europe is charged to think about the institutional contours of the EU after its widening.
It includes representatives of all the countries applying for accession, including Turkey.
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Schoolboy hero takes on racism, al Qaeda
As European authorities grope for ways of combating the appeal of militant Islamism, one German security agency has hit on a novel idea: Cartoon comics. Officials in the state ofNew paradigm needed for Cyprus
CENGİZ AKTARA Turkish perspective on why the OECD still matters (4) by Mehmet Öğütçü
Some of the challenges Turkey faces that could benefit from greater interaction with international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) include, inter alia: 