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The VolksWagen debate is irrelevant
The World Bank introduced its annual Global Development Finance report with short seminars in Ankara and Istanbul late in the week. I found the Istanbul leg a much more appeasing introduction than the markets’, when the growth revisions in the report led to sharp sell-offs amidst a mood of uncertainty on Monday.
The battle for Turkey’s soul: Elites vs. the West
Turkey is an elite project; historically, large elite groups, i.e., mega elites constituting sizeable portions of the society, have led Turkey toward their own societal values and foreign policy choices. This was the case during the Ottoman Empire, the Republican era, and, today, with the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.
A heretical idea: Atatürk is no god
Since its release on the anniversary of the Turkish Republic, Oct. 29, Turkey’s pundits have been hotly debating “Mustafa,” a documentary by Can Dündar, columnist for daily Milliyet and popular voice of the moderate left. The Mustafa in question is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s founder, the film intends to show his “human side,” often neglected or even hidden in modern Turkey.
Hope in Iraq-Turkey relations up, dimming at home amid tension
The region around the Iraqi-Turkey border becomes a dizzying dichotomy of political fortune as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government finds encouraging signs of progress in northern Iraq but is confronted by disturbing unrest among its own citizens.
Hope in Iraq-Turkey relations up, dimming at home amid tension
The region around the Iraqi-Turkey border becomes a dizzying dichotomy of political fortune as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government finds encouraging signs of progress in northern Iraq but is confronted by disturbing unrest among its own citizens.