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18 June 2013
by Hugh Pope
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Turkey and Europe still need each other

  Three weeks of unrest in Turkey have killed four people, injured many others and forced thousands more to seek treatment for tear gas inhalation. Now an international crisis over the still simmering protests could do critical damage to the … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: Erdoğan, EU, protests, Turkey, unrest | Permalink

4 June 2013
by Crisis Group
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Turkey’s Protests: The Politics of an Unexpected Movement

By Didem Collinsworth (@akyeld) and Hugh Pope (@Hugh_Pope) Read this post in Türkçe. Q – How did the Istanbul unrest start and how widespread is it? The Istanbul unrest started out on 27 May as a small sit-in by a handful … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: Gezi park, Istanbul, protests, taksim square, Turkey, unrest | Permalink

22 March 2013
by rtraynor
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Can Gas Save Cyprus? The Long-Term Cost of Frozen Conflicts

Last month, iron anti-riot shutters boarded up the street-side windows of the Grande Bretagne hotel ballroom in Athens as fine-suited patriarchs of Greek and Cypriot industry gathered for the annual Athens Energy Forum, hoping that recent discoveries deep beneath the … Continue reading →

Categories: Cyprus | Tags: bailout, Cyprus, eurozone, Greece, natural gas, Turkey | Permalink

22 March 2013
by Crisis Group
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Öcalan Announcement Raises Hopes for Turkey Peace Process

As a new peace process is under way between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish insurgency, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, sent a much-anticipated message to Turkey’s Kurds. The message, signalling the start of a … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: announcement, Nowruz, Öcalan, peace process, PKK, speech, Turkey | Permalink

5 March 2013
by rtraynor
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Turkey’s Tentative EU Springtime

The translucent white marble stairs and cream gilt and stucco ceilings of the ceremonial hall of Ankara’s new presidential palace rarely echo to spontaneous applause, but the words “Turkey will always be part of my heart” did the trick. The … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: Ankara, European Union, Turkey | Permalink

17 January 2013
by Crisis Group
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For now, Turkey copes well with Syrian influx in Hatay Province

by Hugh Pope & Didem A. Collinsworth In early January, we spent several days criss-crossing Turkey’s Hatay province on the border with Syria. The visit left us in little doubt that here, at least, Turkey is coping well with the … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: border, Hatay, refugee camps, Syria, Turkey | Permalink

11 January 2013
by rtraynor
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PKK–Ankara Talks Resume

Note: This article first appeared The Majalla. A welcome new opportunity has opened up to settle the thirty-year conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). After eighteen months of bitter clashes, the re-launch of discussions between … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: Ankara, conflict, Erdoğan, Kurds, PKK, talks, Turkey | Permalink

20 July 2012
by Didem A. Collinsworth
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Lawyers feel the heat inside Istanbul’s Palace of Justice

Opened a year ago, İstanbul’s impressive nineteen-storey Palace of Justice is trumpeted to be the largest in Europe. Once inside the sparkling building, it looks airy, sterile and efficient. Not one, but two massive, blindfolded statues of Lady Justice flank … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: Istanbul, KCK, Kurds, lawyers, Palace of Justice, Turkey | Permalink

23 September 2011
by Hugh Pope
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Stepping on the Gas toward a Cyprus Partition

Despite eastern Mediterranean states’ new readiness to talk and act tough, navies of the region are unlikely to clash any time soon over oil platforms, aid flotillas, maritime boundaries or exclusive economic zones. But newly assertive Turkey, Israel and Cyprus … Continue reading →

Categories: Cyprus, Turkey | Tags: Aegean Sea, Cyprus, EU, gas, Mediterranean Sea, Turkey | Permalink

9 June 2011
by Hugh Pope
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Ten Tasks for Turkey’s New Government

New cities, high-speed trains, suspension bridges, airports, tax holidays, a “crazy” grand canal parallel to the Bosporus waterway, iPads for all – the campaign trail ahead of Turkey’s 12 June parliamentary elections is strewn with promises of great times coming. … Continue reading →

Categories: Turkey | Tags: Aegean Sea, Armenia, Cyprus, elections, EU, Turkey | Permalink

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