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Western otherization and Turkey’s response

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Turkey initiated a large-scale Westernization project immediately after the declaration of the Republic. It had …
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    Opinion

    In an interview with The Washington Post last week, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "wants an honest conversation with the European Union, the best way would be to stop threatening to send hundreds of thousands of refugees to its shores." "We can have an honest discussion with President Erdoğan," he added. "He needs financial support."
  • UN
    Opinion

    There are three items on President Erdoğan's agenda: Turkey's request for support regarding the fate of Syrian refugees, Erdoğan's commitment to setting up a safe zone in northeastern Syria and his emphasis on injustices in the current world order. I believe that the Turkish president will touch upon those issues in his address to the U.N. General Assembly as well as bilateral meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel. Erdoğan's recent remarks about nuclear weapons relate to the search for a new world order, as encapsulated by the maxim: "The world is bigger than five." After all, revealing one's intention to become a nuclear power makes little sense if one indeed means it.
  • Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton (L) listens to President Donald Trump (R) during a working lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump' s private Mar-a-Lago residance in Palm Beach, Fla, April 18, 2018.
    Opinion

    To save himself from more criticism over the increasing number of 'unappointed positions' in Washington, President Trump has been rushing to find a man for the foreign and national security desk since John Bolton's ‘sudden' departure

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  • Syrian refugees return home for the Qurban Bayram (Eid al-Adha) holiday, at the Öncupınar Border Gate in the southern Turkish town of Kilis, July 30, 2019.

    There is an ongoing debate on Syrian refugees in Istanbul, who are being asked to return to the provinces where they were registered. The media extensively covered complaints by Syrians about the 30-day grace period.

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    Last week, one of the most significant developments in regards to Turkish-American relations was the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump with dozens of Republican senators. Reportedly, during the meeting President Trump tried to convince the senators in regards to the potential negative impacts of adopting sanctions against Turkey to the U.S. and its bilateral relations.

  • “It's a political problem. If Turkey receives S-400s, the F-35 transfers will be stopped and that would be a big loss,” Ian Lesser, executive director for Brussels bureau of the German Marshall Fund, told a panel hosted by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA).

    S-400s are not technical problem but political one, says expert

  • Experts discuss Turkey-NATO relations

    S-400s are not technical problem but political one, says expert

  • The NATO Council and Mediterranean Dialogue Partners Meeting took place in Ankara | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    The NATO Council and Mediterranean Dialogue Partners Meeting took place in Ankara earlier this week, at a time when Turkey and the United States are experiencing tensions over the former's plan to purchase the S-400 missile defense system from Russia and disagreements on Turkish drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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