fr fr fr fr nb fr en en en en fr fr fr fr en en en en en en en en en en en en en fr fr fr fr sl nl fr it nl en en fr nl fr fr fr fr zh fr fr fr fr fr fr nb fr fr fr en fr de en en fr pl sv en fr fr en en fr fr en en hu id ca fr fr fr fr fr cs en en de tr ro fr en fr en fr cs en en en fr en cy fr fr en en fr fr vi fr fr fr fr tr tr ro tr en nl la en fr en tr hu fr fr fr fr fr fr en fr tr tr de tr nl fr de it en en de en eo tl tr tr ro en tr en tr en en fr en en en en ca en en en en gl fr fr fr fr fr fr it ro fr fr fr fr en en fr fr fr fr fr fr tr fr en fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr en fr it fr fr fr fr
The Cold War is over and foreign policy is not a zero-sum game. This sentence is the summary of what the Turkish capital has been tirelessly telling everyone in response to arguments and debates suggesting that Turkey has been moving away from the Western world because of inappropriate foreign policy moves on the part of the government.
Most recently, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined those debates on Wednesday, suggesting that the European Union’s refusal to offer Turkey a swift (...)
Dans les années 1990, Hilmar Kaiser a travaillé exclusivement à Istanbul et a eu accès aux archives ottomanes qui étaient alors gérées par des règlements spéciaux grâce à (...)
Historian challenges politically motivated 1915 arguments
The general tendency to debate the events of 1915 — the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I — by employing politically motivated theories on the nature of these events stands as a barrier between the peoples of Armenia and Turkey, preventing them from adequately airing their deep, almost century-old grievances.
Prominent German historian Hilmar Kaiser is presently in Ankara carrying out research in the Turkish archives. In an interview with Sunday’s Zaman this week, Kaiser says (...)
Top court quashes acquittal of Kaboğlu, Oran
The Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday quashed an earlier decision by a local court in Ankara which acquitted two prominent academics last year over a government-sponsored report criticizing the treatment of minority groups.
The decision concerning İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of law, and Baskın Oran, a professor of international relations, was made with a majority vote by members of the top court, the Anatolia news agency reported. Oran called the decision by the court “basically a (...)
Peace initiative to create a public conscience on Kurdish issue
Source : Turkish Daily News, 12-01-2007
‘Militarism and militancy are nourishing each other. It is now time to produce integrity from our differences; peace from our fights and trust from our doubts and fears,’ says the peace initiative, which will hold the ‘Turkey Seeking Its Peace’ conference over the weekend in Ankara
This weekend intellectuals will hold a conference in the Turkish capital to seek paths toward societal peace by helping to shape a public conscience about the bitter (...)