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...Ahmet Içduygu Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Ahmet Içduygu is professor of international relations at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koc University, Istanbul. Demographic Mobility and Turkey: Migration Experiences and Government Responses...

...Euripides L. Evriviades Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Euripides L. Evriviades is ambassador of Cyprus to the United States. Cyprus in the European Union: Prospects for Reunifi cation, Peace with Turkey, and Regional Stability...

.... Turkey and the European Union Donald M. Payne After years of debate and argument for and against Turkey’s entry into the European Union, on 3 October 2005 Ankara finally got the green light to begin in earnest the process of joining the economic and political power bloc...

...Robert Olson Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Robert Olson is professor of Middle East Politics at the University of Kentucky. Relations among Turkey, Iraq, Kurdistan-Iraq, the Wider Middle East, and Iran Robert Olson In this essay, I...

...Joshua Walker Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Joshua Walker is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and a former Fulbright Fellow in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey and Israel’s Relationship in the Middle East...

...). He teaches political sociology and international relations at Eastern Michigan University. Benjamin Adams is a senior student at Eastern Michigan University. Who’s the Sick Man of Europe? A Wavering EU Should Let Turkey In Fatos Tarifa and Benjamin...

...Cobie Harris Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Cobie Harris is associate professor of political science at San Jose State University, California. Costas Melakopides: Unfair Play: Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, the UK and the EU . Martello Papers 29. Kingston, Ontario: Centre...

..., the issue now is less institutional than cultural. By problematizing European cultural minimalism as the main informant of anti.Turkish opposition, this essay turns the issue of Turkish membership upside down. While in Turkey religiosity does not appear to be a decisive factor in shaping perceptions...

.... Kabasakal Arat, ed. Human Rights in Turkey. Philadelphia: Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 349 pages. ISBN 978-08122-4000-9/ ISBN-10: 0-8122-4000-6. $69.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Human rights, in the sense of an itemized list of individual liberties protected by legal safeguards...

...Constantine A. Pagedas Bruce Clark: Twice A Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 274 pages. ISBN 978-0-674-02368-0. $29.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Reviews Tim...

...Justine M. Williams Joseph S. Joseph, ed.: Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 270 pages. ISBN 0-230-00549-5. $74.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Reviews Tim Weiner: Legacy...

..., and Tuvalu. He also served at the US embassy in Cyprus and was director of the Office of Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus Affairs in the US Department of State. He is secretary of Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. Reviews Iain Chambers: Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics...

... citizens of Turkey are bound together by a shared culture, not race. Ataturk used the phrase Turkeye Millet (or the Turkish Nation — a concept formerly used to identify communities other than Turk) to emphasize that the nation is one community. Heper has carried out extensive research...

... are evident in Turkey's journey to the EU. Cultural identity boundaries are dynamic, and emphasizing the protection of particular minority groups can be regarded as a minority-forging policy that places at risk the successful implementation of minority protection in the candidate country. Mediterranean...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Although US leaders have long regarded Turkey as a crucial strategic ally, relations between Ankara and Washington have been deteriorating for years. Domestic changes in Turkey, especially the decline of secular forces, account for some of that estrangement but fundamental...

... in the prospect of hydrocarbon deposits in Cyprus's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Turkey has not recognized the EEZ of Cyprus and, for decades, has not only opposed the United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea but it has interpreted and attempted to distort it to make gains in its maritime conflict...

...Umit Cizre When one takes stock of Turkey's capacities and limitations not in terms of geopolitics, Islamism, or the Kurdish question but from a sociological and political perspective focused on internal challenges and prospects, perhaps the most critical concern turns out to be the civil—military...

..., most political leaders have tried to follow a “civic nationalism” rather than an “ethnic nationalism,” the principle that all citizens of Turkey are bound together by a shared culture, not race. Ataturk used the phrase “Turkeye millet” (or the Turkish nation — ­a concept that formerly was used...

.... Sait Çetinoğlu is a historian at the Free University in Ankara, Turkey. Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 Çetinog˘lu: The Mechanisms for Terrorizing Minorities  15...

...Reuben Silverman The confrontation between Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and media mogul Aydin Dogan illustrates a major shift that has occurred in Turkey since the early 2000s. Dogan Holding is part of a traditional economic elite dominated by a number of large, coastal firms...