Turkey’s rising foreign policy ambitions have been best reflected in its pivot to Africa. One of the tropes used by the Erdoğan administration to advance its cause are references to the colonial heritage of the European Union (EU) and its member states.
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Le président turc a multiplié, dimanche, les attaques contre son homologue français, provoquant le rappel de l’ambassadeur de France à Ankara.
Read MoreThe dispute between Greece and Turkey concerning the delimitation of sea borders in the Eastern Mediterranean has become a security challenge for the whole region. The recent agreements of Greece with Italy…
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From the summer of 2015 until early 2016, the EU faced a massive influx of asylum seekers, most of them fleeing the conflict in Syria.
Read MoreIt is very sad that the European colours, the flag of the EU, is nowhere to be seen in the images, projected to the world, of Greek forces as they attempt to stop the human flood directed by Ankara at the land and sea frontiers of Greece.
Read MoreWe must say it again: a three or four, or even of more, days war between Greece and Turkey ―extremely intensive, over the entire space of the Aegean, and possibly expanding to Cyprus and Thrace…
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In a previous article (“To the Hague”, October 2019) this column warned that Greece and Turkey were rapidly converging to a point…
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The deal agreed between the US and Turkey immediately achieved the priority objective of vice-president Mike Pence’s peace mission to Ankara…
Read MoreProvisoirement cimentés et stabilisés par la lutte contre l’organisation État islamique (EI), les réseaux d’alliance au Moyen-Orient se reconfigurent aujourd’hui très rapidement. L’offensive turque en Syrie, déclenchée le 8 octobre, accélère encore ce grand jeu des ligues et des ententes: d’anciens ennemis…
Read MoreIt is not very clear to the drafter of this text how clear it is ―or if it is discernible at all―, to the EU partners of Greece and to the North Atlantic allies of both…
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The article examines the evolution of Turkey from an obedient Client State of the US to an independent and significant Regional Power that is still growing. The abandonment of Kemalism over the years and the development of a neo-Ottoman dogma is analyzed.
Read MoreNEW YORK — Now that Turkey is at loggerheads with its erstwhile ally, the United States, the country’s currency crisis has morphed into a political problem of the first order.
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