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Cengiz Aktar: Ermeni Müslüman

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Ermeni Müslüman   ?Bizim için 2015?in bugünden bir farkı yok, bugün neyse 2015 de bizim için odur. Bu konuyla ilgili korkacak bir şey yok. O gün dile getirilebilecek iddialar bugün de zaten var. Zaten ellerinde bir şey olsa, buyurun kestiğinizin belgesi deyip, önümüze koyarlardı, varsa buyursun getirsinler. Soykırım yapıldığına dair herhangi bir belge yok, olsaydı bunu getirmek … Read more

Arzu Geybullayeva: Imagine track II diplomacy for Karabakh

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This piece was first published here. With the permission of the author, it is republished here. E.S. Imagine track II diplomacy for Karabakh The Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation Each year since 2007, the Imagine Center brings two groups of selected participants from Armenia and Azerbaijan together in a third country to discuss the two … Read more

Obama did not say it, but something good still happened in Istanbul…

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While I was going through some personal stuff, I missed to watch (or attend) an historical event: A commemoration of the 1915 massacres. The event page is here. This was the first in Turkey’s recent history. It was a small scale event but a giant symbolic step:

İHD'den protesto

Human rights activists hold pictures of Armenian victims during a protest outside the Haydarpasa railway station in Istanbul. Thousands of Armenians have marked the 95th anniversary of mass killings under the Ottoman Empire amid fresh tensions with Turkey over the collapse of reconciliation efforts.? Read more » (AFP/Bulentkilic)

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“The cost of no EU-Turkey: four views

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The cost of no EU-Turkey: four views

from ACTURCA

Open Society Foundation, May 2009, Istanbul                   Türkçe

Hakan Altınay, Michael Lake, Carl Bildt, Paulina Lampsa, Hakan Yılmaz

We as the Open Society Foundation care deeply about EU-Turkey relations, because we strongly believe that Turkey becomes a more open society as it gets closer to the EU. We also believe that the open society values in the EU grow stronger, as the Union gets ready to admit Turkey. When Turkey is admitted as a member of the EU, the new Union will be in a much better position to project open society values in the world, which we consider equally important.

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Irish President tells Turks an anecdote of myth not fact and some Turks already know it…

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A while ago, in a mailing list, a friend excitedly send Drogheda FC’s logo and told the story. Someone searched about it and found that was a myth. Now here comes again:

President tells Turks an anecdote of myth not fact

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While President Gül gets Chatham Prize, Genocide Resolutions on the agenda…

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Roundup continues on genocide bills and Turkey’s other foreign policy related issues…

President Gül Named Chatham House Prize 2010 Winner

Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, has been voted the winner of the Chatham House Prize 2010. This annual award is presented to the statesperson deemed by members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year.

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Another deplorable statement from PM Erdoğan: Deporting Armeanians…

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PM Erdoğan wanted to state that Turkey is indeed tolerant and lets many Armenian citizens (I usually heard 50,000 but now 100,000 is uttered) work in Turkey “illegally”. However what he meant in his own way turns out to be a scandal that he won’t care much…. This threat was not about Armeanian-Turkish citizens…

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EU enlargement chief was in town…

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EU enlargement chief presses Turkey on Cyprus, Armenia (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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Now PM points out the “Jewish lobby” for the course of genocide resolution…

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The Resolution Saga Continues, Erdogan Points to “Jewish Lobby” from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff Prime Minister Erdogan said today that Ankara has no plans to send Turkish Ambasador to the United States Namik Tan back to Washington until it receives a clear signal that the resolution is dead. On Friday, the Obama … Read more

When CHP encounters EU…

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Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs Egemen Bagis (L) introduces ...

Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs Egemen Bagis (L) introduces Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Riekstins to Turkey’s delegation members in Riga February 26, 2010.REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Here are a few accounts of what Onur Öymen, deputy chairman of a social democrat party, CHP,  experienced at EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting…

MEHMET KAMIŞ – CHP to face trouble when it goes abroad

As the deputy chairman of a social democrat party, Onur Öymen is trying to find support from Europe for the minority status quo in Turkey. According to reports in the press, Öymen spoke at the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting the other day.

Oymen at the European Parliament

from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff

EU Parliament Turkey Rapporteur Ria Oomen-Ruitjen
PHOTO from Today’s Zaman

CHP deputy chairman Onur Oymen, speaking to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee at the European Parliament this week, criticized European politicians for only reading one newspaper, namely Today’s Zaman (though the paper was not mentioned by name). The pro-government/moderate Islamist-oriented daily reports:

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“ECHR decision in Akdas v. Turkey

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ECHR decision in Akdas v. Turkey (no 41056/04)

from CyberLaw Blog by admin

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16.02.2010

Press release issued by the Registrar

Chamber judgment1

Akdas v. Turkey (no 41056/04)

SEIZURE OF THE NOVEL Les ONZE MILLE verges BY Guillaume Apollinaire and conviction of the publisher hindered public access to a work belonging to the european literary heritage

Unanimously:

Violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression)

of the European Convention on Human Rights

Principal facts

The applicant, Mr Rahmi Akdaş, was born in 1958 and lives in Bandırma. He is a publisher and in 1999 published the Turkish translation of the erotic novel Les onze mille verges by the French writer Guillaume Apollinaire (?The Eleven Thousand Rods? ? On Bir Bin Kırbaç in Turkish), which contains graphic descriptions of scenes of sexual intercourse, with various practices such as sadomasochism or vampirism………………………..

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Mevlüt Çavuşoglu, the first Turkish PACE president

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Wikipedia site  for Mr. Çavuşoğlu

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands ...

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mevlut Cavusoglu before a meeting in Istanbul, January 30, 2010. REUTERS/Anatolian News Agency/Salih Zeki Fazlioglu

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“Turkey’s Homework on Minority Rights

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Turkey’s Homework on Minority Rights

from Bianet :: English
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe calls Turkey for a series of measures regarding religious minorities to be implemented throughout the coming twelve months. A progress report is expected by February 2011.

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Turkey and Armeania, one step back-again

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In the last round, relations got worse but I believe this is just another (negative) step in many steps to come… A roundup on Turkish foreign policy… Historic efforts to establish ties between Armenia and Turkey may break down, the Armenian foreign minister warned on Friday, blaming Ankara for obstructing the process. (AFP/Graphic/Paz Pizarro) A … Read more

Turkish Foreign Policy roundup.

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More moves on the Eastern front…

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject ...

EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) shakes hands with Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting in Tehran October 27, 2009.

REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi

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