Turkey’s Homework on Minority Rights
Eyebrows raised as Turk gets top European job
Council of Europe: time for Pan-European consolidation by MURAT DAOUDOV
In the coming two years, three key decision making bodies of the Council of Europe (CoE) will be headed by ?non-European Union? Europeans: the Norwegian secretary-general, the Turkish Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) president and the Committee of Ministers? chairmanships consecutively assumed by Switzerland, Macedonia, Turkey and Ukraine. What does this mean for Europe?News.Az – Dutch minister compares Turkey’s EU accession to end of Cold War
Turkey-Armenia Deal Threatened – WSJ.com
The new Turkish president of the Council of Europe
Here is an article from the Turkish daily news (a turkish site in english where I post […]
Europeans confused about Turkey accession
Israel: Turkish leader fuels anti-Semitism – washingtonpost.com
Turkey’s Mevlut Çavuşoğlu elected PACE President – Politics – Panorama | Armenian news
“1st part of the 2010 Ordinary Session is due 25-29 January 2010. Electing a new PACE President is to be one of the Session priorities. The only candidate proposed Mevlut Çavuşoğlu, a member of Turkey?s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been elected PACE President on 2-year term, taking over the President-in-Office Lluis Maria de Puig.”
Another day, another billion Euros
Renault Pledges to Keep a French Factory Busy
Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Renault, met with French officials to address concerns that the carmaker was intent on sending jobs to Turkey.Çavuşoğlu: We will adopt the Council of Europe?s perspective
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, deputy from Antalya for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), will be given the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in a ceremony to be held tomorrow.‘Turkey belongs in Europe’ (Straits Times)
Spain champions Turkish membership in EU ‘family’
Turkey Doth Protest Too Much?
Today’s Zaman has an interview today with Richard Giragosian, director of the Yerevan-based Armenian Center for National and International Studies, about the new tension between Turkey and Armenia over their recently signed normalization accords. Giragosian has some fairly tart things to say about Ankara’s criticism of the language used in the Armenian Constitutional Court’s recent decision to accept the accords.
The Quote of the Week: ?Domestic Politics&Controversy over EU Membership in Turkey? by Prof. Ziya Onis
Excerpt from Ziya Onis (2009) ?Contesting for the ?Center?: Domestic Politics, Identity Conflicts and The Controversy over EU Membership in Turkey?, Bilgi University European Institute Working Paper No: 2 EU/2/2010, [online]: http://eu.bilgi.edu.tr/docs/working%20paper2_101209.pdf
[One million Turks to Jerusalem] What should the next step in Turkish-Israeli relations be? by MEHMET KALYONCU
There seems to be no end in sight for the bumpy ride in Turkish-Israeli relations. A crisis between the two countries recently caused by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon?s attempt to humiliate Turkey?s ambassador to his country not only strained already bitter relations between Israel and Turkey but also signaled a major characteristic change in bilateral relations.
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