Arab Spring Archive

  • Competing interests in nation’s balance By Rachelle G. Cohen Today in a southern corner of Turkey eight refugee camps are home to some 25,000 Syrians who have fled the violence...

    Arab Spring’s model is Turkey

    Competing interests in nation’s balance By Rachelle G. Cohen Today in a southern corner of Turkey eight refugee camps are home to some 25,000 Syrians who have fled the violence...

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  • Written by David Rosenberg The Arab Spring has been tough on Turkey. Its good friend, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, disappointed it with a violent crackdown on protestors. Relations with Iran...

    In the Arab World, Turkey’s on Top

    Written by David Rosenberg The Arab Spring has been tough on Turkey. Its good friend, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, disappointed it with a violent crackdown on protestors. Relations with Iran...

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  • Meeting the Geopolitical Challenges of the Arab Spring: A Call for a joint EU-Turkish Agenda by Günter Verheugen This policy brief discusses the potential for cooperation between Turkey and the...

    Meeting the Geopolitical Challenges of the Arab Spring: A Call for a joint EU-Turkish Agenda

    Meeting the Geopolitical Challenges of the Arab Spring: A Call for a joint EU-Turkish Agenda by Günter Verheugen This policy brief discusses the potential for cooperation between Turkey and the...

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  • Turkey Wants to Resume Talks on Iranian Nuclear Program Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 6 January 10, 2012 By: Saban Kardas Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, paid a...

    Turkey Wants to Resume Talks on Iranian Nuclear Program

    Turkey Wants to Resume Talks on Iranian Nuclear Program Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 6 January 10, 2012 By: Saban Kardas Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, paid a...

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  • News Analysis By Gary Feuerberg Epoch Times Staff Created: January 8, 2012 Last Updated: January 9, 2012 Related articles: World » Middle East An Egyptian demonstrator waves Egyptian and Palestinian...

    Turkey, Israel, Iran—Winners and Losers from Arab Spring

    News Analysis By Gary Feuerberg Epoch Times Staff Created: January 8, 2012 Last Updated: January 9, 2012 Related articles: World » Middle East An Egyptian demonstrator waves Egyptian and Palestinian...

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  • Addressing Turkish ambassadors in Ankara, Turkey’s Culture and Tourism minister Ertugrul Gunay said that despite political turmoil the country witnessed more than 30 million tourists in 11 months of 2011,...

    30 million tourists visit Turkey in 2011

    Addressing Turkish ambassadors in Ankara, Turkey’s Culture and Tourism minister Ertugrul Gunay said that despite political turmoil the country witnessed more than 30 million tourists in 11 months of 2011,...

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  • by Peter Kenyon Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty ImagesTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) has been enthusiastically received by Arab Spring countries that look to Turkey as a potential model. Here, Erdogan...

    The Turkish Model: Can It Be Replicated?

    by Peter Kenyon Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty ImagesTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) has been enthusiastically received by Arab Spring countries that look to Turkey as a potential model. Here, Erdogan...

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  • The first visit of a Hamas leader to Turkey, in Februrary 2006, caused great controversy in the host country. When Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal arrived, it was during the fourth...

    How times have changed: Hamas leader feted in Turkey

    The first visit of a Hamas leader to Turkey, in Februrary 2006, caused great controversy in the host country. When Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal arrived, it was during the fourth...

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  • About the only people having a Happy New Year in the Muslim world aren’t the Christians who are huddling and waiting out the storm, but the Islamists who use a...

    The Year We Lost Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia and Most of the Middle East

    About the only people having a Happy New Year in the Muslim world aren’t the Christians who are huddling and waiting out the storm, but the Islamists who use a...

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  • By Kemal Derviş/Washington/Istanbul A year has passed since revolution in Tunisia and protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square toppled ossified authoritarian regimes and ignited a much wider – and still raging...

    The economic imperatives of Arab Spring

    By Kemal Derviş/Washington/Istanbul A year has passed since revolution in Tunisia and protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square toppled ossified authoritarian regimes and ignited a much wider – and still raging...

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  • The leader of the Tunisian Islamist Ennahda party Ghannouchi says the closest example of their experience is Turkey, but they do not need secularism in Tunisia. The closest example to...

    No Need for Secularism in Tunisia

    The leader of the Tunisian Islamist Ennahda party Ghannouchi says the closest example of their experience is Turkey, but they do not need secularism in Tunisia. The closest example to...

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  • Can Egypt’s powerful, secular military take a page from Ankara and learn to get along with the country’s new Islamic parties? BY TOM HUNDLEY | DECEMBER 14, 2011 In this...

    What Turkey Can Teach Egypt

    Can Egypt’s powerful, secular military take a page from Ankara and learn to get along with the country’s new Islamic parties? BY TOM HUNDLEY | DECEMBER 14, 2011 In this...

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  • Written by David Rosenberg Published Sunday, December 11, 2011 So say observers, even as they warn the influence will be limited Countries outside the Arab Spring and looking in have...

    U.S., Turkey, Even Israel, Have Role in Arab Spring

    Written by David Rosenberg Published Sunday, December 11, 2011 So say observers, even as they warn the influence will be limited Countries outside the Arab Spring and looking in have...

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  • In Turkey’s footsteps The AK Party model of governance is a model for countries like Egypt where religious norms are in conflict with civil liberties By George S. Hishmeh, Special...

    In Turkey’s footsteps

    In Turkey’s footsteps The AK Party model of governance is a model for countries like Egypt where religious norms are in conflict with civil liberties By George S. Hishmeh, Special...

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  • THE ongoing Arab Spring has dethroned dictators or compelled them to accept some measure of democratic reform. It has also focused the world`s attention on the direction that new political...

    Turkey & Arab world

    THE ongoing Arab Spring has dethroned dictators or compelled them to accept some measure of democratic reform. It has also focused the world`s attention on the direction that new political...

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  • In just one year, relations between the United States and Turkey have moved from tension to cooperation. This was the focus of remarks by a Turkish journalist speaking at the...

    Turkey’s Changing Regional Role

    In just one year, relations between the United States and Turkey have moved from tension to cooperation. This was the focus of remarks by a Turkish journalist speaking at the...

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  • Syrian official says Damascus agrees ‘in principle’ to allow entrance of Arab League observer mission; 22-member body proposed sending hundreds of observers to the to help end the bloodshed. By Jack...

    Russia warships to enter Syria waters in bid to stem foreign intervention

    Syrian official says Damascus agrees ‘in principle’ to allow entrance of Arab League observer mission; 22-member body proposed sending hundreds of observers to the to help end the bloodshed. By Jack...

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  • Turkey’s Involvement In Syria Raises the Stakes For Its Government Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 211 November 15, 2011 By: Saban Kardas Turkey has accelerated its contact with...

    Turkey’s Involvement In Syria Raises the Stakes For Its Government

    Turkey’s Involvement In Syria Raises the Stakes For Its Government Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 211 November 15, 2011 By: Saban Kardas Turkey has accelerated its contact with...

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  • Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s diplomatic skills combine intellectual authority with moral sensibility. Davutoglu’s diplomatic skills have been compared to those of Henry Kissinger [GALLO/GETTY]   By a happy quirk...

    Davutoglu’s brilliant statecraft

    Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s diplomatic skills combine intellectual authority with moral sensibility. Davutoglu’s diplomatic skills have been compared to those of Henry Kissinger [GALLO/GETTY]   By a happy quirk...

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  • US-Turkish Security Cooperation Deepens Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 206 November 8, 2011 By: Saban Kardas The US-Turkish bilateral relationship is entering a new period of cooperation. While...

    US-Turkish Security Cooperation Deepens

    US-Turkish Security Cooperation Deepens Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 206 November 8, 2011 By: Saban Kardas The US-Turkish bilateral relationship is entering a new period of cooperation. While...

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