A special report on Turkey: Doing it by the book | The Economist
A special report on Turkey: The Davutoglu effect | The Economist
Analysis: Turkey hesitates on missile defense
Worldview: Turkey leans toward one of its two worlds
Turkey rebuffs U.S. pressure to slash trade with Iran
Opinion: German president pulls no punches in Turkey | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 20.10.2010
Powerful US Jewish lobby groups helped censure Turkey on Cyprus? – Cyprus Mail
NYT columnist lends support to Turkish foreign policy
How do you say Döner in German?
Before taking its modern aspect, as mentioned in Ottoman Travelbooks of the 18th century] the döner used to be a horizontal stack of meat rather than vertical, probably sharing common ancestors with the Cağ Kebabı of the Eastern Turkish province of Erzurum.
Mavi Boncuk |
Hast du heute gedönnert? Did you get doner(ed) today. / Döner macht schöner/ Döner makes (you) Beautiful.
KLAUS JURGENS – She loves me, she loves me not: Should Turkey continue to court Brussels?
Greece misreads the new reality
The other night I met with some old friends from Athens. Some of them are linked with the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and keen followers of Turkey?s reshaping foreign policy. For years they have been sincerely engaged in overcoming obstacles which have made Greek-Turkish relations problematic in many areas.
İBRAHİM KALIN – Turks, Germany and multiculturalism in Europe
US plays ‘genocide’ card to pressure Turkey on NATO missile system
Transatlantic Drift
Simon Tisdall has an interesting piece up on the Guardian website look at how Washington’s effort to create a NATO-led missile defense program in Europe is, “bringing longstanding tensions over European security into the open, to the potential advantage of Russia and Turkey, the maverick guardians of the EU’s eastern flank.” The full column can be found here.
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