JOOST LAGENDIJK – Cypriot shrewdness and European shortsightedness
They again managed to manipulate European decision making. As on many previous occasions, Greek Cypriot representatives were able to decisively influence the opinion of a European Union institution on a Cyprus-related issue. Last week the European Parliament (EP) was scene to yet another successful attempt to hijack the EU and make the long-term interests of the union and its member states subordinate to the self-interest of the divided Mediterranean island. What happened?
YAVUZ BAYDAR – Dreams fading over Cyprus
Turkey’s relationship with west on the line in European missile defence negotiations
EU enlargement: Turkey must do more to
Mavi Boncuk
EU enlargement: Turkey must do more to protect basic freedoms
[DICO] Commission: Subcommittee on Human Rights
Press release 20101027IPR90474
A good Turk in Europe is an unintegrated one! by ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ
Disgracefully, Turkey’s EU bid is going nowhere soon | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian
Turkey accuses Dutch PM of discrimination | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
“Turkey’s government accuses Prime Minister Mark Rutte of discriminating Turks in the Netherlands for opposing cabinet ministers with a dual Dutch-Turkish nationality.
Turkey Ends Cooperation With Mossad
Istanbul ? PNN ? Turkish news media reported today that Turkish intelligence agencies stopped exchanging information and performing joint operations with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Image The report came from the Turkish newspaper Sabah on Monday. Israeli officials have not confirmed or denied the allegations and the prime minister’s office declined to comment.”
Gaza flotilla was ‘Turkish provocation’, Livni tells enquiry – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
?Shift the axis but don’t exaggerate?
TURKEY: Ankara suspicious that Israel’s security behind U.S. push for regional missile shield
Turkey: One foot in the Middle East, one in Europe | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt
Pax Ottomana?
The Mixed Success of Turkey’s New Foreign Policy
By Hugh Pope
November/December 2010
HUGH POPE is Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for the International Crisis Group and the author of Dining With al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East.
European Court Decision on Turkish Headscarf, Revisited
Leyla Şahin v. Turkey was a 2005 European Court of Human Rights case brought against Turkey by Leyla Şahin that challenged a Turkish law which bans wearing the Islamic headscarf at universities and other educational and state institutions. The verdict upheld the Turkish law with 16 votes to 1. While recognizing the Turkish state?s right to intervention, the court concluded that in a democratic state, such intervention is acceptable. The lawyer and rights activist Fatma Benli has published a book that analyzes the case and its effects on local judicial outcomes in Turkey.
EU official ‘pleased’ with Turkey’s HSYK election
Turkey?s Rapidly Rising Currency Has Downside
The lira?s strength is a point of national pride, but a rapidly growing current account deficit, diminishing tourism and other signs show it is taking a toll.
EU enlargement: Turkey must do more to protect basic freedoms
Turkey steps out
Ankara?s foreign minister applies Western ideas, and the West doesn?t like it.
ANKARA Davutogluism is a mouthful. It?s not going to make Fox News any time soon. But if I could escort Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers and a few bigoted anti-Muslim Europeans to a single country illustrating how the world has changed, it would be the home of the Dword, Turkey. ”