Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]

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http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/12/16/turkey-petition.html?ref=rss
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A group of 200 Turkish intellectuals is tackling one of the great taboos of Turkish society — the 1916 massacres of Armenians in the country.
A group of writers, journalists and academics, many of them prominent members in their fields, has posted [...]

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INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW REPORT
 
Istanbul/Brussels, 15 December 2008: Turkey is entering a critical year when its already fading goal of European Union membership may be put on hold indefinitely.
Turkey and Europe: The Decisive Year Ahead,* the latest International Crisis Group report, says both Turkey and EU member states need to recall how much they [...]

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OFFICE-TKG

Belcikada neler oluyor? Asagida gelen Türkce ve Ingilizce e-postalari dikkatlere sakince okumak amaci ile sunuyoruz. Asagida yazi ‚dogrular ile yanlislarin birbirine karistirildigi’ va amaci karalama ve camaura cekme girisimi olan bir propaganda calismasi olabilri. Dogru ise cok üzücü bir gelisme ile karsi, karsiyayiz. Asgidaki yazi Türkce ve Ingilizce AB ülkelerinin her tarafina yollandigini tahmin ediyoruz! [...]

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08 December 2008, 19:51 CET
BRUSSELS - The European Union on Monday called on candidate nation Turkey to normalise relations with island member state Cyprus “as a matter of urgency.”
The EU in 2006 froze eight of the 35 policy negotiating chapters that all candidates must complete before they join the bloc in response to Ankara’s [...]

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Ramday Javed Iqbal (lead)
Alistair Corbett
October 2008

http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/rcds/CollegeNews/papers/CSI%20Turkey.pdf
 
The Royal College of Defence Studies

RCDS 2008 – CONTEMPORARY STRATEGIC ISSUES

Key Judgements

• Turkey is likely to internally consolidate its democracy, resolve conflict between secularism and political Islam and sustain economic growth. Some tension between democratic forces and secular elite will remain.
 
• The Kurdish problem [...]

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[ 09 Dec 2008 19:37 ]
Brussels. Alexander Kean - APA. The EU believes that Croatia should speed up reforms, and Turkey has not made sufficient progress for the EU membership, according to a ministerial meeting of the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels, reports the APA correspondent.
The Council welcomed Croatia’s considerable efforts [...]

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ATAA to Screen Award-winning Cyprus Missing Persons Documentary,”The Vanished Bus”
ATAA is pleased to announce the screening of the award-winning Turkish Cypriot documentary, “The Vanished Bus” (Kayıp Otobüs), at the Turkish House in Dupont Circle on Friday, December 5, 2008, 7pm.
“Kayıp Otobüs” investigates the 1964 kidnapping and massacre of 40 Turkish Cypriot workers, whose lives came [...]

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After the collapse of USSR, necessaries of new states were that economic, politic, military and educational relations with each other and other international platforms and countries. On that way all former Soviet countries created Commonwealth of Independence States union. With creation of CIS, these countries which were unificated on old Soviet map will create new [...]

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FTA UK Press Release
London, 10th November 2008The Federation of Turkish Associations UK would like to voice their extreme frustration and disappointment at the actions and comments of the Duchess of York, presenter Chris Rogers and inferences made by Barrister John Cooper in the broadcasting of the distorted portrayal of Turkey in the programme “Duchess and [...]

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