5 January 2010
by Hugh Pope
Comments Off

EU and Turkey Edge Back from the Brink

Turkey’s friends in Europe have won an important argument. The governments of France and Germany have stopped advocating a “privileged partnership” to replace the long-promised goal of EU membership for Turkey.The concept was always a short-term pandering to Europeans’ fears … Continue reading

24 July 2009
by Hugh Pope
Comments Off

Can Cyprus Buck the Partitionist Trend?

“Everyone in my community is clairvoyant,” a Belfast politician is quoted as saying in Divided Cities, a new book by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). “My community knows how evil and devious the other side is … Continue reading

23 February 2009
by Hugh Pope
Comments Off

Setting the Stage

Turkey has been converging formally with the European Union and its predecessors since it signed an association agreement in 1963, the same year the dispute between Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Turkey and Greece over Cyprus became both a cause and … Continue reading