Policy Note / Burcu Gültekin Punsmann, PhD. The On going Official Contacts and Cooperation on the Turkish-Armenian Border: The Impossibility for Neighbours to Elude Geography
15/09/2010- 3589
The 328 km long Turkish-Armenian border starts near Lake Çıldır, and extends to Dilucu, near Iğdır, running southwards following the Aras River. The military zones flanking on both sides the border isn't though entirely closed to civilians and le
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Turkey - Armenia Relations, Caucasus,
Evaluation Note / PhD. Levent Gönenç 2010 Proposed Constitutional Amendments to the 1982 Constitution of Turkey
14/09/2010- 5487
The current constitution of Turkey, which was adopted by a nationwide referendum on 7 November 1982, has been amended sixteen times since its inception. Nine of these amendments were implemented under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (
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Constitution Making, Constitution Platform,
TEPE Achieves The Positive Zone For The First Time TEPE increased by 5.7 and 8.3 points compared to the month before and August 2009, respectively.
02/09/2010- 1335
ANKARA- TEPE, for the first time since May 2008, achieved the positive zone and reached 3.2 as of August 2010. TEPE increased by 5.7 and 8.3 points compared to the month before and August 2009, respectively.
Expectations for the next 3 months cont
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) ,
‘Balkan Express’ Returns to Turkey TEPAV Foreign Policy Analyst Erhan Türbedar served as a general advisor to the Project
25/08/2010- 1425
ANKARA- 'Balkan Express' Project carried out in cooperation by TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) and Turkish State Railways ended. The Project in which TEPAV Foreign Policy Analyst Erhan Türbedar served as a general advisor, aimed to b
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The Balkans,
Overcoming hurdles in Turkey-US relations … A roundtable meeting was held at TEPAV with the participation of Bülent Alirıza, CSIS Turkey Project Director.
04/08/2010- 2003
ANKARA- Bülent Ali Rıza, Turkey Project Director in US based think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), participated as a keynote speaker to a roundtable meeting at TEPAV to discuss the future of Turkey-US relations.
Underli
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Turkish - American Relations,
TEPE increased in July 2010 Expectations play a crucial role in the improvement.
03/08/2010- 1703
TEPE which tended downwards over the last two months started to increase again as of July 2010. The Index improved by 6.2 points compared to the month before and by 4.3 points compared to the same month in the year before. The recovery in expectati
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) ,
TEPAV: “Shift of Axis in Exports…” TEPAV research says: . Turkey failed to accompany the rest of the world in the recovery in exports . There is a shift of axis away from EU market toward other markets . Market share of Turkey drops despite the depreciation of lira while market share of China increases despite the appreciation of its currency"
28/07/2010- 1510
ANKARA- TEPAV emphasized that Turkey could not accompany the rest of the world in the recovery in exports after the crisis and stated that Turkey's exports shifted away from EU market.
Policy Note entitled: 'Export Losses in the EU Market' by Asso
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Trade, Exports,
TEPAV Constitution Experts Seminar Series – 4 Prof. Dr. Preuss: "Constitutional Court has the authority to check constitutional amendment proposals"
27/07/2010- 1884
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Preuss from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin was at TEPAV to deliver a seminar on the challenges and the key considerations in the constitution-making process. In his speech, Preuss maintained that Constitutional Court has
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Constitution Platform, Constitution Making,
Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp Can "Competition Policy Chapter" be Opened to Negotiation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron Says?
27/07/2010- 1834
At his speech in TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) on July 27, 2010 David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said that they expect the competition chapter to be opened as the next step in the accession process wi
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EU - Turkey Relations, EU Accession,
TEPAV Constitution Experts Seminar Series - 3 Ulrich Preuss, Mithat Sancar and Mesut Yeğen spoke at TEPAV.
26/07/2010- 1685
In the third seminar of the TEPAV Constitutional Experts Seminar Series, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Preuss, Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mesut Yeğen talked about coexistence, citizenship and the integrating role of constitutions.
Prof. Dr. U
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Constitution Making, Constitution Platform,
