EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule. AFP photo
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http://vimeo.com/12488021 Despite the Israeli government?s thorough efforts to confiscate all footage taken during the attack, Iara Lee was able to retain some of her recordings. Above is 15 minutes of footage from the moments leading up to and during the Israeli commandos? assault on the Mavi Marmara. *** Turkey denies break with Europe from BBC … Read more
Foreign Policy (USA), May 20, 2010
By Ahmet Davutoglu
The Turkish government this week brokered an 11th-hour nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran. Turkey?s foreign minister explains the principles that made it possible.
Throughout modern history, there has been a direct relationship between conflict and the emergence of new ways of arbitrating world affairs. Every major war since the 17th century was concluded by a treaty that led to the emergence of a new order, from the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 that followed the Thirty Years? War, to the Congress of Vienna of 1814-1815 that brought an end to the Napoleonic Wars, to the ill-fated Treaty of Versailles that concluded the first World War, to the agreement at Yalta that laid the groundwork for the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. Yet the Cold War, which could be regarded as a global-scale war, ended not with grand summitry, but with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Union. There was no official conclusion; one of the combatant sides just suddenly ceased to exist.
Emine Erdoğan watched a concert performed by Turkish pop star Sertap Erener in Brussels on Friday. VIA
Currently, The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s wife Emine Erdoğan is addressing a speech in a conference called ?The role of Turkish Women in Turkey?s EU processes which she joined with a huge group of Turkish business women to represent Turkey.
But there is a question to be asked here. Is that really that helpful to be in such a populist manner to improve and speed up the process of Turkey?s EU process in these uncertain conditions?
According to me, the possibility of early voting stimulates the government to create a ?too interested in important subjects like women and EU? image to alter the perception in that way.
Despite the fact that ?women? and ?EU? issues are really important to bring together, first of all each of them should be solved particularly to make the collage of the two issues more meaningful.
Also another question mark is in sample. Are these 300 women most appropriate sample to represent Turkish women and are they heterogeneous enough?
Moreover, according Milliyet newspaper ?Erdoğan will explain Turkish woman?. What does that mean? Will she give success examples in business life of Turkey? Will she talk about the social status of women or will she talk about the the innovation needed in legislation about women?
Most of the important issues aren?t discussed, but they seem to be discussed?
I hope 300 people return to Turkey not with smiling celebrity pictures but with the permanent strategic innovation steps and different discourses.
EurActiv, Friday 24 March 2006
In this CEPS policy brief, Willem Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, argues that, with the right institutions and policies, Turkey could become a true tiger economy. But with the institutions and policies of the second half of the 20th century, it could end up a mangy cat instead of a tiger. This policy brief is motivated by some rather optimistic official reports and especially by the World Bank?s recent Country Economic Memorandum for Turkey, ?Promoting Sustained Growth and Convergence with the European Union?.
Not only the Northern Cypriots but all sides and particularly EU leadership is certainly responsible. Nationalist victory threatens Cyprus peace process from EUobserver.com – Headline News EU main cause of Eroğlug’s victory in Cyprus from Hurriyet Dailynews by HDN As far as the EU is concerned, it is clear few Turkish Cypriots have any faith … Read more
Who said that capturing hearts and minds in the Muslim world is mission impossible? It’s just that the United States hasn’t figured out the right way to do it. Sometimes, it seems the U.S. government still thinks that public diplomacy is exchange students and a few diplomats who can speak Arabic and struggle on satellite television in the region to explain U.S. foreign policy.
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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………………………..
What do a Turkish and a Greek Cypriot journalist do when meeting over dinner in Marrakech? Without a doubt, risking torment over the subject, they talk about the fate of the settlement talks between the two leaders of the divided island.
Wikipedia site for Mr. Çavuşoğlu
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
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
Egemen Bağış, the chief negotiator, talks at Bahçeşehir U today after a protest by a group of leftist anti-EU students…
A positive signal from Germany, a supportive article from the Guardian (Keeping Turkey out of Europe), but a negative sign in Van Rompuy ‘s debut and a group anti-EU college students makes a fuss in Istanbul. A funny intervention by a Bulgarian minister against Turkey who is criticised in the end by his own government… A roundup.
Hürriyet says Turkey’s ruling men in today’s National Security Meeting were briefed about Turkey-EU relations for an hour. Ms. Akçakoca has a piece that reviews 2009 in this respect. It was a dire year as she says…