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...Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu The change in Turkish foreign policy in the twenty-first century’s second decade has its origin in the approach referred to by Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu as Strategic Depth. Because it aims to give Turkey status as a Eurasian power, this approach has been described...

...Burak Erdenir This essay analyzes the change in value orientations of Turkish society in recent decades with reference to the Europeanization process the country has been going through, particularly that embodied in the European Union accession process. As the Europeanization of Turkish political...

... control in their discourses. Hakan Sahin is a lieutenant colonel in the Turkish Army. He teaches at the Turkish Army War College, Istanbul. Copyright 2016 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2016 military in Turkey political thought military intervention democratic control of military...

... Provisions of the Ottoman/ Turkish Governments Regarding Minorities and Their Properties Anastasia Lekka In this essay I explore the enactment of legislative measures by the Turkish or Ottoman authorities, which sought to regulate minority affairs...

...Donald M. Payne Donald M. Payne, Democrat from New Jersey, is a member of the US House of Representatives and chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Turkish...

... by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. Reviews  123 move beyond impressions about Turkey’s human rights policies to a comprehensive, scholarly treatment of this subject in the research of twenty-one scholars from Turkish and other academic centers. One may even...

...Yasin Aktay The “political” has been absent from Turkish foreign policy because the main difficulties facing the country were considered almost constitutive elements of Turkish national existence, so that they are kept incurable. This essay includes a brief history of the absence of the political...

...Ali Balci The history of the “deep state”—also known as Ergenekon —in Turkey starts with the foundation of the modern republic. Although references to the deep state date back to an earlier period, this essay examines coverage of it in the Turkish media during the late 1990s and the early-twenty...

...Richard Weitz Relations between Russia and Turkey continue to deepen. This change from Cold War–era animosity began even before the advent of the new Turkish government led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) but has accelerated since then. The leaders of both countries meet frequently...

... for such an ambitious project as this one, although it would seem that the first meetings in Berlin and then in Beirut might give the reader some indication, as would the fact that both editors and four other contributors are Turkish. This book is about “the cities of commerce of the southern and eastern shores...

...Yücel Güçlü Yücel Güçlü is minister counselor at the Embassy of Turkey, Washington, DC. Reisman Arnold : An Ambassador and a Mensch: The Story of a Turkish Diplomat in Vichy France . Lexington, Ky. : CreateSpace Publishers , 2010 . 308 pages. ISBN 978-1-4505-5812-9. $40.00...

...Nazmi Akiman Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Nazmi Akiman served as Turkish ambassador to Greece from 1984 to 1989. As a career Foreign Service officer, he also served as Turkey's ambassador to Spain and Cuba. The author is grateful to Tozun Bahcheli of King's College, London,Ontario...

...Michael B. Bishku Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Michael B. Bishku is associate professor of history at Augusta State University, Georgia. Turkish-Bulgarian Relations: From Conflict and Distrust to Cooperation over Minority Issues and International Politics...

...Theodora Kalaitzaki Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Theodora Kalaitzaki, a resident of Athens, recently received her PhD in international relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. US Mediation in Greek-Turkish Disputes since 1954...

...Fotios Moustakis; Rudra Chaudhuri 2005 Fotios Moustakis is senior lecturer in strategic studies at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Rudra Chaudhuri is a researcher at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter. Turkish-Kurdish Relations...

...Evaggelos G. Vallianatos Speros Vryonis Jr.: The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6–7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul . New York: Greekworks, 2005. 660 pages. ISBN 978-0-9747660-3-4. $75. Evaggelos G. Vallianatos holds a doctorate...

...Stephen C. Calleya Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Stephen C. Calleya is director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta. EU-Turkish Relations: Prospects and Problems Stephen C. Calleya The decision taken by the European...