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“Sunni-Shia Polarization in the Middle East” Discussed at TEPAV Prof. Dr. Onat: “For the first time, we are faced with the risk of a global sectarian tension.”
03/07/2014
ANKARA - Prof. Dr. Hasan Onat, Head of Ankara University Faculty of Divinity Department of the History of Islamic Sects declared that sectarian tensions until recently had been local and small-scale and warned: “For the first time the Muslim worl
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Timur Kuran: “The Tradition of Islamic Waqfs Had a Role in the Underdevelopment of the Middle East” The memorial lecture of this year’s Merih Celasun Memorial Day event was given by Prof. Timur Kuran.
27/05/2013
ANKARA – The third Memorial Day TEPAV in honor of Professor Merih Celasun was held on Monday, 27 May 2013. This year’s memorial lecture was delivered by a renowned academic, Professor Timur Kuran, who delivered a presentation titled “Institut
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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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Business Bridges with the EU: TEPAV to Monitor 3rd Countries The project announced with a conference in Istanbul will match companies from the EU and Turkey with counterparts from Egypt, Tunisia and Palestine.
01/10/2012
ANKARA/ISTANBUL – TEPAV analyzed the potential of Egypt, Tunisia and Palestine for economic and trade cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Turkey in third countries. The Business Bridges Initiative will carry out trilateral matchma
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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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Choices and Challenges for Turkey as a Regional Power Discussed
30/05/2012
Recent developments about foreign policy were discussed during the panel meeting presented by Tufts University and TEPAV.
ANKARA – TEPAV and Tufts University organized a panel meeting titled “The Emergence of Turkey as a Regional Power: Choices
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Lessons for Iraq from Turkey’s Transformation Experience… TEPAV Analyst Ozan Acar delivered a presentation at the workshop held in the context of the Private Sector Development Programme for Iraq carried out by the UNDP.
23/05/2012
ISTANBUL – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development organized a workshop on private sector development in Iraq, in Istanbul on 21-23 May 2012. At the workshop that was atten
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TEPAV’s Agenda: “Arab Democratic Wave” One Year After… Assessing the grassroots movements in the North African and Arab countries, Alvaro de Vasconcelos, Director of European Union Institute for Security Studies, associates the democracy in the Middle East with Turkey’s EU membership.
30/01/2012
ANKARA – With a meeting held at TEPAV, successive grassroots movements in North African and Arab countries which started one year ago were addressed. The meeting hosted as a keynote speaker Alvaro de Vasconcelos, Director of European Union In
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