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ORSAM Report No:108 THE FUTURE OF THE ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (ECO) |
There is a great potentiality for the success of the organization. In today’s world, however, it is not possible to make a satisfactory assesment in view of and as compared to the high potentiality of member states which could carry out more in their cooperation in all fields where the ECO might have important stakes.
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Mind The Gap: Turkey’s Realities Versus How Others Perceive Them |
| Turkey’s policy towards Syria is being perceived abroad as being more in tune with the concerns of the well-established democracies of the West, rather than reflecting commonalities with the positions of the other rising powers of Asia. The thing that clearly differentiates Turkey from ... |
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Yemen Elections: Constitutional Change of the Government |
| The Presidential Elections in Yemen, which is going to held today, will display that regime changes can be done not only in revolutionary but also in evolutionary ways and in also more peaceful and constitutional methods in the Middle East and North Africa. While it is certain that the current Vice... |
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Turkey and The North Atlantic Alliance: NATO + T @ 60 |
| The date today is 18 February 2012, which marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Turkish accession to NATO.It has been a highly eventful six decades which has witnessed both strong cooperation as well as deep disagreement between Turkey and fellow NATO members. During this time Turkey... |
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Turkey’s ‘Perceptional’ Problem Abroad |
| On the occasion of an international conference on the Arab Spring organized by the Center for West Asian Studies, India, I noticed that Turkish decision makers had a fundamental problem of explaining Turkey’s goals and policies in the Middle East in general and Syria in particular. Many of the... |
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Rising Nationalism and Western-Skepticism in The Rising Powers of Asia |
| It is now very common to observe that rising powers of Asia view international developments increasingly from a nationalistic and western-skeptic perspective. I have got this feeling during a conference in New Delhi on the Arab Spring and its regional and global ramifications... |
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The Course of the Turkish-Iranian Relations |
| As the pressure from the U.S. and EU mounts against Iran because of its nuclear program, the Turkish-Iranian relations have entered a decidedly new phase. Turkey, under the leadership of Erdogan, has carried out the policy of “zero problems with neighbors’” for the last ten years... |
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Muslimism in Turkey and New Religious Orthodoxies |
| We identify new religious orthodoxies as a type of religious movement. Neither liberal adaptation nor fundamentalist rejection, they embrace much of modern life even as they attempt to submit that life to a sacred, moral order. Their prevalence calls into question social science... |
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Assad Utilizes The Kurdish Trump Card |
| It is reported that Bashar al-Assad, who is rapidly dragged into both problematic and rough period of relations with Turkey, is getting ready to utilize the PKK trump card against Turkey. By pretending to launch reforms on the Kurds, who have been living in Syria and who has not ... |
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Syria’s PKK Game |
| Clues about allegations regarding that recently Syria and PKK have gotten closer to one another will be strived to be searched through archive review and discourse analysis methods in this study. To this end; news on Turkish press, analyses taking place in news agencies close ... |
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Syrian Gridlock of Turkey and Alternatives |
| While, on one hand, striving to take the support of actors such as Tehran, Riyadh, Doha, Cairo, Paris, Washington, Moscow and Beijing, as a right strategy; on the other hand, and maybe more importantly, she needs to receive the support of Aleppo, Latakia, Suweida, Qamishli, Afrin and Wadi al-Nasara. |
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