Turkey does not need Europe and its extensions, PM Erdoğan?s advisor suggests
Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey does not need Europe and its ‘material-moral extensions,’ PM Erdoğan?s top adviser, Yiğit Bulut, said
Turkey, US dismiss Seymour Hersh report
Hurriyet Daily News
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has dismissed an article by Seymour Hersh, which claimed that Turkey staged a gas attack to provoke a U.S. war with Syria. Earlier, U.S. officials denied the claims
Turkey losing faith in the European dream
ACTURCA
Deutsche Welle (Germany) 07.04.2014 Senada Sokollu Caught up in mounting internal conflicts, Turkey is gradually losing interest in its EU accession candidacy. Many Turks feel disillusioned, including the secular, pro-European elite. For the last year, Turkey has been dogged by one of the worst domestic political crises in its history. It started with the countrywide
Turkey Turns Its Back on the E.U.
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International New York Times (USA) Friday, April 4, 2014, p. 2 By Alan Cowell, London At the height of the Cold War, Turkey?s great landmass cemented its place in the Western alliance, its huge conscript army deployed across the sweeping expanse of Anatolia to safeguard NATO?s southeastern flank. Even now, with crisis just across the
Turkey?s choice: EU or Putin norms
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Today?s Zaman (Turkey) Monday, April 7, 2014, p. 15 Şahin Alpay Turkey, during the first two terms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in power, managed to leave behind the military-bureaucratic tutelage over democracy, if not constitutionally then in practice. The main struggle for Turkey in the third term of AKP power is to
Turquie : les coups de menton de M. Erdogan
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Le Monde (France) A la Une, lundi 7 avril 2014, p. 1 Éditorial La vengeance plutôt que la main tendue, l?intolérance plutôt que le compromis avec l?adversaire. Vainqueur des récentes élections municipales, le premier ministre turc, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, n?a pas tardé à confirmer un tournant autoritaire de plus en plus inquiétant. C?est une mauvaise
Op-Ed: Echoes of Armenian Genocide as Turkey supports attacks on Kessab Special
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