Turkey: Makes Moves In EU Acession Process - FM
December 19, 2008

Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Dec. 19 that Turkey opened two new “policy chapters” in the accession process to join the European Union, Agence France-Presse reported. The two policies were involved with “free movement of capital” and Information society and media.” Babacan added that [...]

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By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Dec 10, 2008, 00:22
(WMR) — Tuncay Guney, the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) agent who was a key player in the right-wing “Deep State” Ergenekon movement that attempted to overthrow the Turkish government, spent time in North Jersey in the months prior to the 9/11 attacks, according to a reliable [...]

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Dealing with Pakistan
After Mumbai
Dec 4th 2008
From The Economist print edition
Even though the terrorists probably came from Pakistan, India should continue to keep its cool
AP
PEOPLE in India are describing last week’s terrorist attack on Mumbai as India’s September 11th. In many ways, the comparison is apt. Although the death toll, at about 190, is a fraction [...]

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Turkey’s politics
Dec 11th 2008 | ISTANBUL
From The Economist print edition
FOR two decades, the leader of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has cast himself as the sole politician who can defend Ataturk’s secular republic against creeping Islam. So the sight of Deniz Baykal recruiting a woman in a full black chador at a CHP gathering [...]

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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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Soul-Searching in the CHP: Baykal’s “Chador Opening”
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 236
December 11, 2008
By: Saban Kardas
Deniz Baykal, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), kindled a controversial debate in Turkish politics when he introduced his new project to reach out to conservative circles. During a party meeting, Baykal pinned party [...]

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Truman Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Truman_Doctrine
Carter Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Carter_Doctrine
1980 Turkish coup d’état
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ 1980_Turkish_ coup_d%27% C3%A9tat

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By Ibon Villelabeitia
REUTERS
8:17 a.m. October 22, 2008
ANKARA – Lifting a ban on women wearing the Muslim headscarf at university violates Turkey’s secular constitution, the country’s top court said on Wednesday, defending a decision against the ruling AK Party.
In a legal reasoning that appeared to end any hope for the Islamist-rooted AK Party to revive the [...]

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 Sabrina Tavernise’s article with the title In Turkey, Bitter Feud Has Roots in History in the June 22, 2008 issue of New York Times immediately fueled the existing debate in Turkey over the country’s political future. From the whole article alone the quote from Dengir Mir Firat, the Vice-President of the ruling AKP that ‘the [...]

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September 23, 2008
 

Nurten Ural, President, ATAA
Gunay Evinch, President-Elect, ATAA
assembly@ataa.org

 
GREEK VIOLATIONS DURING THE GREEK MILITARY INVASION
IN 1919 AND THE GREEK RETREAT IN 1922

THE INTER-ALLIED CONDEMNATION OF GREECE
 
I. Introduction:
The Greek military invasion and occupation of western Anatolia (1919-22) is a difficult memory for both Turks and Greeks, and a source of friction and, sometimes, animosity in the [...]

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