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Washington’da ‘paralel devlet’ sohbeti
WASHINGTON’da, uluslararası gücü ve etkinliği giderek artan şehir içi ulaşım konusunda çalışan sivil toplum kuruluşu EMBARQ ile Dünya Bankası’nın işbirliği ile hazırladıkları ‘Transforming and Transportation’ konferansı için Dulles Havalimanı’ndan valizimizi aldığımızda bir el omzumuza dokundu:
Düşlüyor, düşünüyor ve karar aldırıyorlar
Dünya siyaset sahnesine 19. yüzyılın sonlarında adım atan, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra devletlerin güvenlik konularına daha fazla kafa yormaya başlamasıyla yükselişe geçen, Soğuk Savaş’ın sona ermesiyle yeni dünya düzeninin zorunlu kıldığı alternatif analitik bakış ihtiyacı sayesinde özellikle ABD’de altın çağını yaşayan ‘think tank’ler artık Türkiye’de de siyasi süreçlerin önemli aktörleri olma yolunda.
'Turkey should change bridge rhetoric'
ISTANBUL -Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind of melting pot, a hub, a political, cultural, strategic hub, whatever you would like to call it. A center where people can meet together, talk together, and where they can interact together.
'Turkey should change bridge rhetoric'
ISTANBUL -Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind of melting pot, a hub, a political, cultural, strategic hub, whatever you would like to call it. A center where people can meet together, talk together, and where they can interact together.
Turkey’s ’multi-centered’ foreign policy
Some columnists such as Erdal Şafak and Taha Akyol see the new Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as an extraordinary minister and praise him every chance they have. So do I see Davutoğlu as an important academic, a humble but principled personality and a man of patience, and I remember his always-smiling eyes.
Status quo likely victor in Iran vote
ISTANBUL - As Iranians head to the polls today to decide the country’s next president, experts caution that the main challenger still faces a tough battle with incumbent Ahmadinejad. But, many say, regardless of who wins over the electorate, the supreme leader has the last word on the Islamic Republic’s policies and foreign relations.
Women raise voice for equal division of labor
ISTANBUL - One of the areas where the difference between men and women in Turkey is strikingly apparent is the division of housework. Women from around the world gather in Istanbul this week to tell their experience of how more of them went to business from household activities
Turkish minority marks anniversary of uprising
DZHEBEL, Bulgaria - Although the Turkish minority party in Bulgaria is a vital force in Bulgarian politics today, this was not the case until 20 years ago. Bulgaria’s Turkish minority last week celebrated the anniversary of their uprising against the assimilatory policies of the regime that helped topple it
Turkey's foreign policy shift confuses Western allies, report says
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s allies are confused by the shift in its foreign policy and its pronounced Eurasian and/or Middle Eastern bent, an independent Finnish research agency finds. Although some believe the country is turning its back on the West; others say Ankara’s foreign policy is well balanced in all directions, while yet others find Turkey’s conduct to be essentially ‘directionless’.
Turkey develops local arms sector
ISTANBUL - Even though a new report from a Sweden-based think tank shows Turkey falling back from Greece in terms of weapons imports, weapons stocks continue to grow on both sides of the Aegean Sea, with Turkey relying more on domestic manufacturers rather than overseas suppliers
Changing roles, new reckonings
The appointment of Ahmet Davutoğlu will occupy many of us for some more time, no doubt. In his first comprehensive speech to European Union ambassadors on the occasion of the Europe Day on May 9, Davutoğlu has proven that his selection as the chief of Turkish diplomacy was right.
AKP puts on the ’national shirt’
Once upon a time, under accusations that the AKP was an Islamist party adhering to the "National View" doctrine of Necmettin Erbakan, the founding father of the political Islam movement in Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan disavowed political patrimony declaring "We have changed and developed. We have taken off the (National View) shirt. We are a new conservative-democratic party."
Social Policy chapter & May Day
The European Union has been waiting since Jan. 19, 2007, for Turkey to meet opening benchmarks of the Social Policy and Employment chapter, the 19th chapter of the Union’s acquis communautaire. Among these benchmarks, the most critical are the removal of thresholds before collective bargaining agreements, or CBAs, and the right to establish trade unions in the public sector. Benchmarks are nothing new.
Experts say Syria deal not threat to Israel
ANKARA - The recent Turkish-Syrian joint military exercise and bilateral defense cooperation agreement has raised concern in Israel, which has nurtured close military ties with Ankara for more than a decade while still at war with Syria over the Golan Heights.
Women beat the odds in crisis in Turkey
ISTANBUL - Gender and education differences have emerged from Turkey's record unemployment figures, according to a report by the Center for Economic and Social Research. It shows more women are finding jobs while men with low education have borne the brunt of record-high job losses