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Category Archives: Turkey
Dec 11 2019
Turkish populism as a “Theory-reconstructing” case study
Comments Off on Turkish populism as a “Theory-reconstructing” case studyBy Yaprak Gürsoy Although there is consensus that the AKP is a populist party it does not directly resemble European or Latin American cases of populism. By exploring the case of Turkey and its difference with Europe and Latin American populism, … Continue reading
Posted by: December 11, 2019
Tagged with: populism, Turkey
Oct 27 2016
The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future Scenarios
Comments Off on The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future ScenariosBy Pınar Dinç and Irem Aydemir The Arab Spring started the fire in 2011, and ever since the whole MENA region has been in turmoil. The civil war in Syria has quickly become a global one with the ongoing war … Continue reading
Posted by: October 27, 2016
Tagged with: eu-turkey deal, migration, refugee crisis, Syrian refugees, Turkey
Mar 21 2016
Europe’s Human Rights Crisis
2 CommentsBy Natasha Saunders Fidelity to one’s principles is measured by how they are honoured in times of crisis. Hannah Arendt – a refugee who fled Nazi Germany and became one of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century … Continue reading
Posted by: March 21, 2016
Tagged with: asylum, asylum seekers, EU, human rights, immigration, Refugee Convention, refugee crisis, refugee law, refugees
Mar 10 2016
Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish Press
Comments Off on Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish PressBy Kate Cyr Istanbul’s 2013 Gezi Park protests unearthed muddy tales of corruption, bias, and authoritarianism that powerful conglomerates and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would have preferred buried indefinitely. The government received global scrutiny as anyone from … Continue reading
Posted by: March 10, 2016
Tagged with: Erdogan, Freedom of the press, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkish media
Feb 25 2016
The International Politics of the Refugee Crisis
Comments Off on The International Politics of the Refugee CrisisBy Vassilios Paipais Last Wednesday, Vienna hosted a meeting of Balkan countries involving Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia in divisive move that deliberately excluded the Greek government from decisions concerning the tackling of the mounting refugee … Continue reading
Posted by: February 25, 2016
Tagged with: immigration, NATO, refugee crisis, Russia, Syria, Syrian refugees
Aug 28 2015
Fortress Europe: Cause or Consequence of Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis’?
3 CommentsBy Catherine Briddick Europe, it seems, is facing a ‘migration crisis’. This crisis is ‘testing’ for, amongst others, the British public, because, as our Prime Minister David Cameron explained in an interview with ITV News: you have got a swarm … Continue reading
Posted by: August 28, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, human rights, humanitarian visas, international law, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee law, refugees, Syrian refugees, trafficking
Aug 20 2015
Syria’s Refugees: When did the West Become so Heartless?
1 CommentBy Christopher Phillips Recently I went to see Miss Saigon at the West End, a tragic musical set in the years after the Vietnam War. In one scene, the lead characters flee on a crowded boat full of migrants from … Continue reading
Posted by: August 20, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, Syrian refugees, UNHCR, Vietnames boat people
Oct 23 2014
Explaining the Riddle of Turkish Foreign Policy in Syria: Dilemmas, Risks and Limitations
Comments Off on Explaining the Riddle of Turkish Foreign Policy in Syria: Dilemmas, Risks and LimitationsBy Athanasios Manis Since the humanitarian crisis in Kobani made its way to world media outlets, the Turkish government has been under constant international and domestic pressure to either intervene militarily in saving Kobani and/or actively assist the overall anti-Islamic State US-led … Continue reading
Posted by: October 23, 2014
Tagged with: Ahmet Davutoglu, Foreign policy, ISIS, Kobani, Syria
Sep 26 2013
Further distance between EU and Turkey might jeopardise PKK-Turkish government talks
3 CommentsBy Zeynep Kaya The short-term fate of EU-Turkey accession talks will be determined with the publication of the European Commission’s Progress Report on Turkey on the 23 October 2013. The Turkish government’s latest democratisation package will be central to the … Continue reading
Posted by: September 26, 2013
Tagged with: accession talks, democratisation package, EU enlargement, PKK, Reforms, Turkey
Apr 3 2013
Cyprus crisis: swan-song of the Eurozone
3 CommentsBy Vassilis Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas* Harsh measures imposed on Cypriot political and financial authorities to address bank failures reveal, once again, that the entire architecture of the EU is in tatters. Professor Vassilis Fouskas and Dr Constantine Dimoulas contribute … Continue reading
Posted by: April 3, 2013
Tagged with: Civil Society, Conflict, Culture, Cyprus, Democracy, Economics, Equality, International politics