... at a time when the country has been experiencing a vast socioeconomic change, with millions of people moving into the middle class. Turkish democracy Europeanization World Values Survey Turkey Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Burak Erdenir is deputy undersecretary...

...Prodromos Yannas The Ecumenical Patriarchate is considered first among equals of all the Orthodox churches and presides over 200 million Christians. The ecumenical mission of the patriarchate is seriously contested by the official stance of the Turkish government and by ultranationalists who fear...

... with the nearly seventy casinos currently in “Northern Cyprus”, especially as both sides of Cyprus forbid gambling. The author argues that with Turkey and private investors pouring millions of investment dollars into “Northern Cyprus”, the changing economic reality of the occupied area is leading inevitably...

... $50 million in ransom payments and have released a number of the ships and crew members. The United States, Russia, India, and several other countries have deployed warships to tackle piracy in the Horn of Africa region, although the problem still persists. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2009 Ted...

...Theodros Dagne Theodros Dagne is a specialist in African affairs with the Congressional Research Service. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Humanitarian Crises in Ethiopia and Eritrea Theodros Dagne An estimated 14 million to 16 million people...

...: Another Humanitarian Crisis? Theodros Dagne An estimated 16 million to 18 million people are in need of emergency assistance in the Horn of Africa region, according to United Nations and United States government...

... 6 million refugees by the end of 2014. Other conflicts, including the spread of Ismini A. Lamb is director of the Modern Greek Studies Program in the Department of Classics at Georgetown University. Mediterranean Quarterly 27:2  DOI 10.1215/10474552-3618072 Copyright 2016...

... presence. Economic benefits are the direct descen- dant of wartime aid, particularly of the role that [such aid] played in allowing the Bosnian government—more precisely, Sarajevo authorities —to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of resources to its...

... of domestic needs and debts, the GCC countries began to look increas- ingly for markets other than the United States or Europe. Turkey was an obvi- ous choice for such funds, with a population of 75 million, a dynamic and fairly well educated young population, and annual growth rates of 5 to 6 per- cent...

... agreements worldwide rose significantly from $936 million in 1999 to $4.1 billion in 2000. The United States, Russia, and France, collectively, made agreements in 2000 valued at nearly $30.4 billion, 82.4 percent of all inter- national arms-transfer agreements made by all suppliers. From 1997...

... possibilities were coupled with a rapidly increasing population. Nigeria’s population grew from 55 million in 1963 to 82 million in the early 1980s,2 and in 2009 it is more than 150 million. The arithmetical economic 2. Roger Villar, Piracy Today: Robbery at Sea Since 1980 (London: Conway Maritime, 1985...

... in 2003 was over 2 million. Border Patrol agents working the border regions say the percentage of non-Mexicans among the apprehended aliens is 5 to 10 percent. At the conservative 5 percent fi gure, there are at least fi fty thousand non-Mexicans entering the United States each year across our southern...

... Statistics Offi ce (CSO), while commenting on the lat- est census pronounced, “We are no longer an emigrant country.”2 He fur- ther predicted that the Irish population would break the 4 million barrier by 2005–6 and reach 4.6 million by 2031. In a country that had not seen such population numbers since...

... Minor, when Greece was defeated by Turkey, and after the exchange of the Greek and Turkish populations at the time, Greece had 6.2 million people (1928 census), and Turkey had 13.6 million (1927 census). Today Greece’s population is roughly 10 million peo- ple while Turkey’s is 70 million...

... of the HIV/AIDS epi- demic. Sub-Saharan Africa took the brunt of this deadly disease with some 25 million people infected. Several million people died in the 1990s from AIDS, and many more are expected to die in the years to come. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic has left millions of children orphaned...

... and refugees from Middle Eastern and North African states. At present more than 23 million Muslim immigrants and their descendants live in Europe, excluding Turkey, of whom 15 million to 18 million reside in the twenty-five European Union countries.8 (In contrast, demographers estimate the number...

... of the country’s natural gas sector. The Hydrocarbons Sector in Albania: Short- Term Challenges and Long- Term Opportunities Tomáš Vlcˇek and Martin Jirušek Albania is a Western Balkan country with 2.9 million inhabitants. Its neigh- bors are Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro. In the west...

... barrels by 2007.5 Overall production in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to jump from a current level of 3.8 million barrels per day (bpd) to 6.8 million bpd by 2008. These developments lead David Gordon, a senior CIA analyst, among oth- ers, to predict that by 2013 African oil could potentially...

... as Moroccans and not to negoti- ate. In the meantime, the war had become a major economic drain and more costly than any of the belligerents had expected. For Morocco it had cost an estimated $548 million a year and an external debt burden of $25 billion...

..., and Somalia conflicts combined. In the past eigh- teen years, more than 2 million people have died in Sudan, and more than 4 million have been driven from their homes as the result of the civil war. Most of the dead are civilians—women and children—who died from...