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Europeanizatiaon and Nationalism in the Turkish-Greek Rapprochement

This paper attempts to evaluate the forces behind the Turkish-Greek rapprochement, its prospects and its limitations. In the first part, through an...

Turkey’s Foreign Policy Vision: An Assessment of 2007

Turkey’s foreign policy needs a new orientation in the light of the new regional and global developments. As a major country in the midst of the...

Modernity, Identity and Turkey’s Foreign Policy

Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a...

Systemic Changes and State Identity: Turkish and German Responses

This article seeks to analyze identity discourses in Turkey and Germany in the wake of the end of the bipolar world order. The radical changes...

Torn Identities and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey and Japan

This paper examines the impact of contested national identity on Turkish and Japanese foreign policies. Applying a modified constructivist...

Cyprus: The Belgian ‘Tool Box’ Revisited

Bi-ethnic Belgium has skillfully developed cooperation and concertation arrangements which meet even the EU's rigid “one voice" requirement, taking...

Turkey and the EU: Democratization, Civil-Military Relations, and the Cyprus Issue

The paper analyzes Turkey’s democratization efforts between 2004 and 2008. In addition to the challenges that the EU accession process brings to...

Public Opinion and Reaction to Israel s War on Gaza

Public Opinion and Reaction to Israel’s War on Gaza after October 7 in Türkiye

This article investigates the perception and the reaction of Turkish people to Israel’s war in Gaza. For this purpose, we utilized a survey...

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