...Robert J. Pranger Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA . New York: Double-day, 2007. 702 pages. ISBN 978-0-385-51445-3. $27.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Reviews Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. New York: Double...

.... ISBN 978-1-84885-127-6. $95.00 (hardcover). Reviews Biray Kolluoglu and Meltem Toksoz, Editors: Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2010. 256 pages. ISBN 978-­1-­84885-­127-­6. $95.00 (hardcover). Reviewed...

...Constantine A. Pagedas A Modern- Day Alexander: Minos X. Kyriakou and the Spread of Hellenism Constantine A. Pagedas The sudden and unexpected passing of Minos X. Kyriakou on 2 July 2017 is a terrible loss to Greece, the wider Hellenic community around the world, and this journal...

.... The AKP is supported by a new generation of businessmen from Anatolia. This essay uses the conflict between the two to spotlight the competing networks of businessmen and politicians that dominate present-day Turkey. Reuben Silverman holds a master’s degree in international studies from...

... promising to end the austerity era. However, from its first days in office, the new government realized that keeping this promise would be a far greater challenge than winning the election. Cancelation of the austerity measures required renegotiation of Greece's bailout loans, loans that were conditional...

..., the Greek population of the two islands was granted specific civic, cultural, and religious rights by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty remains valid to this day. Turkey deliberately violated the rights of this population because of its ethnicity, religion, and language. The author analyzes...

... ationalist as a negative quantity was made even more explicit by attaching intensifying prefixes such as “ultra” or “extreme.” Searches of newspaper and other archives show that nationalist as a denunciatory epithet has continued in the media to the present day, especially as applied to Serbian politicians...

...Gawdat Bahgat On 27 December 2008, Israeli forces attacked Gaza to stop missile attacks by Hamas. The military operation lasted twenty-two days and ended with a fragile cease-fire. This study seeks to provide an assessment of all involved parties' stances. The author argues that some parties gained...

... for the first time, was a second, then the recent developments concerning Ergenekon , a layer of an undiscovered world of the Turkish deep state, is the third of its kind. Until almost the end of the 1990s, most Turks were oblivious to the somewhat enigmatic concept of a state within a state. In the days...

... of the glorious revolution of the people of South Sudan. Before I proceed with my address, may we rise up to observe a minute of silence in honor of our fallen heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price for our freedom and dignity. This day would not have been possible without their sacrifices. Let...

.... The last time I saw my brother alive was at a festive occasion on 25 Janu- ary 1953, his name day. For more than fifty years I have lived with the burden of a terrible secret and the guilt of my inability to make amends to my par- ents. But I have been trying to get to the truth about their son’s death...

.... In keeping with the spirit of this “journal of global issues” governed by a free exchange of ideas, however, I will at least try to be objective by address- ing at the start the vocabulary of the day: terror/terrorist, on the one hand, and Western values, on the other...

... Tom Campbell There was a war in Yugoslavia. It lasted seventy-nine days. The United States and most of its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies conducted this war against Yugoslavia in the airspace above the province of Kosovo. That province...

... had already tightened con- trol over Internet providers and mobile phone companies to stop the opposi- tion from mobilizing voters on the election days. Pro-opposition voters were harassed and denied the right to vote. Domestic monitors and candidate representatives were denied access to polling...

... by Turkish regulars and irregulars under Kemal’s leadership and continued for some three days, including significant destruction of American property. Bierstadt concludes about the casualties, virtually 124  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2010...

... days, including significant destruction of American property. Bierstadt concludes about the casualties, virtually 124  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2010 Reviews  125 all Greek...

... than 60 percent of Syrian oil production and almost 10 percent of the Iraqi oil production. This amounted to approximately twenty oil fields with a total production capacity of about 80,000 – 120,000 barrels of oil per day, and the IS sold the oil from these fields for a price of $25 – $50 per...

... line marked the end of a thirty-day period of state-sponsored vio- lence. In short, a Greek-led coup against the Cypriot government and the installation of puppet regime prompted Turkey to intervene and eventually occupy 37 percent of the island, citing...

... to Albania.” “Take me with you to Albania.” “There is no room on the plane.” (That flummoxed me, and I went silent.) Sure enough, a few days later Radio Tirana’s English-service radio broad- cast something like the following: “Prime Minister of People’s Republic of China Chou en-Lai...

... that it will- ingly shoulders to help ensure peace and stability in our region. Today’s Albania is still little known beyond its borders. I have certainly noticed what it seems to take these days to become the headline news in the United States, and based on what I’ve seen, I am grateful for all the days...