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Herman Van Rompuy in EU-Turkey relations
by Ali Yurttagül*

21 May 2013, Tuesday /

The European Union took an important step forward with the Treaty of Lisbon when it decided to elect a high representative who would serve as foreign minister as well as a head of council who would have a two-and-a-half-year term and would make the EU visible within and without the union, in an attempt to overcome the term presidency chosen for a period of six months and allow for more permanent representation of the EU in an international platform.

How did US, Turkey compromise on prospective Russian plan for Syria?
by Aydogan Vatandaş*

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to Washington was an indication »»

Spring in Turkey: the Kurdish initiative, public dissent and dialogue
by Louis Fishman*

Different than in the past, during the current spring, Turkey's Southeast was spared »»

Why is the AK Party so popular?
by Pınar Tremblay*

Hannes Swoboda, president of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the »»

Why is Iran provoking ethnic clashes?
by Mehmet Fatih Öztarsu*

Nagorno-Karabakh, regarded as the heart of the South Caucasus, is appropriate as »»

State elites and political elites in Turkey: mutually exclusive actors?
by Begüm Burak*

Since the inception of the Turkish Republic, notable tension has been seen between »»

The importance of doing business
by Ana Palacio*

This month, an independent review panel is expected to release its findings regarding »»

New deal for fragile states
by Erik Solheim*

Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and »»

Syrian refugees
by Taner Kılıç*

Unlike its initial reluctance to open its borders to Kurds fleeing persecution in »»

Oily dirt
by Randall Morck*

Calm discussion of the environment nowadays is about as plausible as reasoned dialogue »»

Hugging a burning tree
by Bjorn Lomborg*

We are all brought up to recycle paper to save trees. We get countless e-mail admonitions: »»

Syria: old game, same rules, different context
by Kaan Kutlu Ataç*

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, »»

Field of Muslim-Western relations as crucial today as ever
by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed*

From the time Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was published over two decades »»

Preparing for a growing crisis
by Sabine Freizer*

The massive dual bombings in the Reyhanlı district of Turkey's Hatay province on »»

Syria's sectarian stalemate
by Bernard Haykel*

What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian »»

Sarajevo-Belgrade-Ankara, again
by Hajrudin Somun*

There is something new in the Balkans with regard to negotiations, reconciliation »»

The Resurrection of Congress
by Shashi Tharoor*

The overwhelming victory of the Indian National Congress in elections in the important »»

Boston Bombings and SVR-FBI espionage war
by Aydoğan Vatandaş*

It is not a secret that Russian intelligence services have successfully penetrated »»

Denial, the other river in Egypt
by Ahmed M. Abou Hussein*

Have you learned about the new cabinet reshuffle in Egypt? Shocked? Egyptians aren’t »»

Debt without drowning
by Paul De Grauwe *

Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be »»

Today

Columnists

	CEMİL ERTEM

	The dynamics of the new era in Turkish-American relations

	ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ

	Religious freedom problems in Turkey in 2012 and forever

	YAVUZ BAYDAR

	Destructive obsession with news control

	AMANDA PAUL

	What has Kılıçdaroğlu gained?

	BERİL DEDEOĞLU

	Erdoğan-Obama: Historic initiatives

	JOOST LAGENDIJK

	Turkey's Syria policy criticized for wrong reasons

	ALİ BULAÇ

	Does secularization modernize societies? (1)

	CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON

	Health issue: smoking in Turkey

	BERK ÇEKTİR

	Property management or not? (1)

	MERVE BÜŞRA ÖZTÜRK

	Alarm bells for CHP