Beril Dedeoğlu

Articles de cet auteur (5)

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  Turkey discussing

  14 January 2009

  For a week now, Turkey has been the scene of debates regarding three texts. These are: the “Apology to Armenians” campaign, “Being Different in Turkey: Alienation on the Axis of Religion and Conservatism,” a joint study by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and Boğaziçi University, and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) report, “A Roadmap for the Solution of the Kurdish Question: Policy Suggestions to the Government from the Region.”
  Although this came about (...)

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  France, country of inventions...

  6 June 2008

  France’s Turkey policy necessitates a high level of creativity. In this context, several inventions have been developed to sustain an attitude of “anything but Turkey’s EU membership.”
  Thus Turkey has become a factor to test France’s intellectual capacity. France’s first invention was to offer Ankara privileged partnership status, the substance of which nobody seems to know. Moreover, this is not a category that exists within the current EU structures or that is compatible with EU ethics. As (...)

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  Will France be obliged to carry Turkey to the EU ?

  22 May 2007

  Source : TDZ, 12/05/2007
  During electoral processes, sometimes a dichotomy can appear. When it becomes difficult to denominate the existing alignments, an external issue is discovered and electors are forced to take sides over this. On this, Turkey and France are very similar.
  Every political party in France defends democracy, secularism, the people’s interests and a prosperous future; in other words, they are in favor of a European-style liberal democracy.
  A very similar question
  In (...)

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  The Turkey of France’s presidential candidates

  20 April 2007

  Source : Today’s Zaman, 31-03-2007
  During the presidential campaign in France, candidates answer questions about various issues in order to reveal and reinforce their point of views. Turkey features frequently in these questions.
  In fact some candidates expose their views about Turkey without even being asked. Nicolas Sarkozy, as one of the main candidates, has not changed his views since the beginning; and it would not be wise to expect a change now. But Sarkozy, who does not think of (...)

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  France’s elections, Turkey’s choice

  13 March 2007

  Source : Today’s zaman
  As the president has important powers in the French political system, the winner of the presidential elections this May is important not only for France but also for many other countries.
  The rightist UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, who says that “Together Everything is Possible,” seems to receive the support of the conservative sectors of the electorate. He wants to restore France’s former power and importance. But having said that, he seems to be supportive of a (...)