Keywords: Turkish Foreign Policy
Situation of Syrian Refugees in Turkey Were Discussed at TEPAV The last Syrian report of the International Crisis Group builds on interviews with local people and refugees in Gaziantep and Kilis, as well as activists and local and central government bodies
08/05/2014
ANKARA – International Crisis Group (ICG) report “The Rising Costs of Turkey’s Syrian Quagmire” which focused on Syrian refugees in Turkey was presented with a meeting held at TEPAV on May 8, 2014. Didem Akyel Collinsworth, Cyprus/Turkey an
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Nilgün Arısan Eralp - "The Outlook for EU-Turkey Relations" TEPAV - EU Institute Director Nilgün Arısan Eralp authored the twelfth issues of the Turkey Policy Brief Series
24/01/2014
"Although the fiftieth anniversary of Turkey-EU relations came and went without notice, the end of 2013 appeared to herald glimmers of hope for the relationship between the two parties. Although neither seemed to have made their mind up rega
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Mesut Özcan - "Turkey's Policy towards the Middle East and North Africa after the Arab Spring" The ninth edition of the Turkey Policy Brief Series is authored by Mesut Özcan, the Deputy Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
02/05/2013
"Beginning at the end of 2010, the transformation of the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) has replaced the erstwhile political structures which were remnants of the Cold War era, with more representative administrations. The process of
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Jean Marcou - "Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Shifting Back to the West after a Drift to the East?" The eight edition of the Turkey Policy Brief Series is authored by Jean Marcou, Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques Grenoble (IEPG), France; and a Research Associate at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA), Turkey.
05/04/2013
"There is almost universal acknowledgement that Turkey’s foreign policy has undergone profound change over the last decade, so much so that it has become customary to speak of a 'new Turkish foreign policy'. It is worth noting that the country
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Paulo Gorjão / "Portugal and Turkey: An Increasingly Substantive Relationship" The seventh edition of the Turkey Policy Brief Series is authored by Paulo Gorjão, Director ofthe Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS) and lecturer of international relations in the Human and Social Sciences Faculty at Lusíada University in Lisbon.
18/12/2012
"The last visit to Lisbon by a member of the Turkish government occurred in September 2012. Egemen Bağiş, Minister for European Union (EU) Affairs, as part of a round of contacts at the European level, met with the Portuguese President of the Rep
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Bülent Aras / Turkey's Mediation and Friends of Mediation Initiative The sixth edition of the Turkey Policy Brief Series is authored by Bülent Aras, the chairman of the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s Strategic Research Center and serves as the President of the Diplomacy Academy.
26/11/2012
"This brief critically examines a new area of activism in Turkey’s foreign policy agenda: Turkey’s rise as a mediator in regional and international crises zones. It contextualizes Turkey’s reliance on a multitude of actors to support its medi
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Turkey-US Relations in the Context of the Syrian Crisis Discussed at TEPAV The TEPAV USA Center Director Dr. Bülent Alirıza stated that the escalating crisis in Syria might hinder US-Turkish relations.
11/09/2012
ANKARA – The current state and future of the escalating Syrian crisis and potential impacts on the US-Turkish relations were assessed at TEPAV.
On September 11, 2012 Tuesday, a meeting titled “The Escalating Syrian Crisis and US-Turkish Re
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Şaban Kardaş / From Zero Problems to Leading the Change: Making Sense of Transformation in Turkey’s Regional Policy The fifth edition of the Turkey Policy Brief Series is authored by Şaban Kardaş, Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
31/08/2012
"This policy brief engages the ongoing debate among political analysts who question the course of Turkish foreign policy and raise the provocative question whether Ankara’s ambitious ‘zero problems with neighbors policy’ has failed. The brief
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Erbil, Baghdad, Ankara and Washington: The Complex Politics Of Kurdish Oil Evaluation Note / Seda Kırdar
23/08/2012
"Oil in the Kurdish region of Iraq is attracting the interest of major oil companies and complicating the politics of the region by exacerbating existing sectarian and ethnic tensions. Iraq’s vast oil reserves gives its long-suffering citizens
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Davutoğlu’s Visit to Kirkuk and the Iraqi Turkmens Evaluation Note / Hüseyin Raşit Yılmaz
03/08/2012
"...The unexpected visit of Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, to Kirkuk brought up the Iraqi Turkmens, an issue long forgotten within the context of the heated foreign policy agenda. Everyone, even those who are familiar with his s
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