Category: Turkey
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Vahit Ozan Poşluk Mar 22, 2024 Figure 1: The iconic Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul Just a little bit less than a year ago, Turkey, a member of NATO and (still) a candidate country of the EU, went through an election process that was deemed as the crossroads for the centennial republic. Although the campaign period…
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By Bora Askinoglu ABSTRACT On the 8th of December, Israel launched strikes on multiple targets within Syria in an air campaign, the largest campaign carried out by the Israeli Air Force over 50 years [19]. The extensive air campaign was initiated hours after the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic and the last-minute evacuation by…
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Stefania Laviola Apr 14, 2024 Since October 7th, the day when the Arab terrorist group Hamas has attacked Israeli territory with rockets, an intense debate has been going on among the leaders of many countries which are directly or indirectly involved in this conflict that originated in 1948 officially. This short contribution aims to analyse…
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Bora Aşkınoğlu Dec 1, 2024 ABSTRACT India is Armenia’s top arms supplier as of October 2024 [1]. The two have fostered the closest relations than ever before, only catalyzed by the recent wars over the contested Karabakh region. Often invisible, India introduces itself as a new player in the region, aligned with Armenia and determined…
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EU Responses to Protests in Serbia, Turkey, and Beyond The End of Values-Based Engagement was an event that took place on the 24th of March of 2026. It sought out discussion regarding protests in Turkey and Serbia, as well as political instability in the Balkan region as a whole. Hosted and organized by Ozan Poşluk…
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Introduction Since the election of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) in November 2002, Turkey has emerged as a paradoxical case among the world’s rapidly growing upper-middle-income economies. It has achieved significant technological upgrading in many of its export-oriented sectors, including transportation, consumer electronics, and defense, despite an institutional environment…