Campaign Calls on Government to Embrace EU Process

A new campaign has called on the government to stop delaying the implementation of EU reforms and to get rid of 'democratic scandals' such as Article 301."

Status Of Kurdish Origin Citizens Improved In Turkey Since 2000, Olli Rehn

BRUSSELS - EU Commissioner in charge of Enlargement Olli Rehn said Monday, thanks to reforms made in the past seven years and Turkey's change into an open society, the status of Kurdish origin citizens improved in Turkey since 2000."

Turkish court rules religion classes should not be compulsory - International Herald Tribune

Turkey - E.U. Joint Consultative Committee Meeting Held In Brussels

Turkish intellectuals urge government to speed up EU reforms — EUbusiness.com - business, legal and financial news and information from the European Union

Turkish State Minister Cubukcu Leaves For Brussels

JTW News - Turkish-Armenian relations and the European Union (1)

By Ali Yurttagül

The results of the Armenian elections last Tuesday were unfortunately not as hopeful as those experienced recently in Cyprus.

The former prime minister and new president Sarkisian is from the 'Karabakh family,' which holds power in Armenia in its hands like a caliphate. Sarkisian is, like Kocharian, a politician who supports the independence of Karabakh. His political star began to shine during his time in the Soviet Union Communist Party, and he held an important position during the occupation of Azeri lands. He has also held important positions such as defense minister during his career in Armenia."

EU enlargement chief urges Turkey to promote cultural rights, reduce poverty of Kurds - International Herald Tribune

Call for Conference: EU-Turkey: The Strategies Of Intercommunication

By Ozi

European Turkish Youth discusses Turkey and Europe relations. With intiaitive of Forum Istanbul Youth Platform a conference organised to bring together and launch beneficial disussions toward EU Membership. Throughout conference, university students and young people from different groups and non govermental organizations will have an unique opportunity to exchange ideas about Turkey's EU Accession.


















Conference On New Draft Constitution Of Turkey Ends In New York

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EUROPE: Turkey 'Slowing Down' On Its Way

A European Turkey – not a Turkey of AKP

Cengiz AKTAR

Article 301 and relativity

By ESER KARAKAŞ, STAR

There have been many jokes made about the theory of relativity in timing with regards to the pull out of Turkish troops from northern Iraq, especially in the wake of the US secretary of defense’s visit to Ankara, with the revelation that even as officials were acknowledging that the pull out could happen anywhere from “a day later to a year later,” the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) were already in the midst of bringing troops back.

France, Turquie : perdants-perdants

Libération (France), 4 mars 2008, p. 37

Marc Bernardin

Les relations bilatérales entre la France et la Turquie sont mauvaises, et il semble qu’elles n’iront pas en s’améliorant. Il y a cinq ans, la France apparaissait comme le meilleur ami de la Turquie. Le président Chirac se présentait en défenseur de sa candidature. Le changement est complet. Le président Sarkozy, mû par une conviction personnelle profonde (L’Europe chrétienne) ou par un souci électoraliste, mène une politique clairement hostile aux négociations ouvertes avec la Turquie en vue d’une adhésion. La Turquie est le bouc émissaire, parfait comme pays de transfert de tous les sentiments et préjugés avoués et inavoués d’un électorat miné par la globalisation et le “déclinisme”.

Vision of EU's 'soft power'

An enlarged European Union can become a supranational model for the multi-ethnic Western Balkans, injecting powerful impetus for a better and peaceful future into the region that once saw a

‘EU disregards its commitments toward Turkey'

The Turkey-EU Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) contact group meeting was held Saturday

The mentality that killed Hrant Dink

Mehmet Ali Birand

Yusuf Kanlı: Cyprus plane is taking off again

Late friend and colleague Kenneth McHenzie, who was covering Turkish news for a variety of British newspapers in the 1970s and 1980s before settling in Cyprus, was often joking that Cyprus was like a plane which keeps on taking off once in a while but never lands. Take-offs, Ken was saying, have always been majestic, with grandiose expectations which somehow always preceded some sort of tension on the island, while the end of the process has always been a disaster, with either of the two sides finding a pretext of burying in the annals of history of failed Cyprus bids whatever achieved through lengthy discussions.Cyprus diplomacy, indeed, is very much like a ping-pong

Solution in Cyprus possible now?

Orhan KİLERCİOĞLU

Is the AKP turning its back to Europe?

Mehmet Ali Birand

Steps toward a more conservative Turkey

Cüneyt ÜLSEVER

A step closer to real secularism

Some days ago, I visited the administrative offices in İstanbul's Beykoz district. The purpose of my brief visit was to renew my family's ID cards.

The Turkish modernization project

The Turkish modernization project often faces serious crises due to inherent problems that the project's architects did not envisage at the time of its formation.