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From Ottoman Patriotism to Turkish Nationalism: Time for Turkey’s Patriotism The Kurdish question is one of the most serious internal problem in Turkey’s history, even constituted a big hurdle in...

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0July 9, 2010
From Ottoman Patriotism to Turkish Nationalism: Time for Turkey’s Patriotism

The Kurdish question is one of the most serious internal problem in Turkey’s history, even constituted a big hurdle in the way of Turkey’s integration to Europe. In order to...
0June 22, 2010
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in Azerbaijan’s Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, and Opinion-Policy Linkage on the Conflict

BACKGROUND Since the end of the 1980s, a conflict emerged berween Azerbaijan and Armenia over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1992 the conflict culminated into the war between these countries....
3May 8, 2010
A Pakistan Tragedy

We see generally in science-fiction films that a scientist firstly makes a creation, then this creation goes beyond its purpose, and it becomes a monster. Finally this uncontrollable monster is...
0May 5, 2010
EU Regional Policy and a Comparative Analysis of Policy Transformation: Turkey and Poland

INTRODUCTION One of the most important policy fields in the EU is regional policy whose effective implementation depends on the compatibility of local and regional governance systems of member states...
0April 22, 2010
About Us and Them

The Near East, The Middle East, The Far East and even sometimes the Far Asia… We didn’t know that the Middle East, which is in fact, too close to us,...
0March 29, 2010
Woman on the Scale…She Looks Fit

Today, roughly half of the population is female. Despite this mass and much of the world economy driven by women, they have just 10% of the world’s income. The gender...
0March 15, 2010
Deal or No Deal: China vs the USA

American interests require a peaceful, prosperous, open, responsible and cooperative China since the times of Roosevelt. Because of the shared interests and primarily domestic concerns of both nations in the...
0March 6, 2010
The USA – Iran Dispute on Nuclear Energy

The nuclear power, which was seen as a possible reason of a war between superpowers during the Cold War period, didn’t cause a war but provided emergence of a stabilized...
0March 5, 2010
The Kurdish Issue Between Turkey and the EU

Turkey and the EU relations has evolved with lots of difficulties since Turkey’s application date for full membership on September 12, 1987. Historically, Turkey was strategically important country for the...