This Week in Turkey (217): with Selim Kuneralp on Turkey’s foreign policy
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was retired ambassador Selim Kuneralp. Ambassador Kuneralp evaluated the efforts to normalize ties with Egypt and Turkey’s recent developments in foreign policy. Ambassador Kuneralp underlined the main areas of conflict between the countries and what concrete steps needed to be taken to mend the relationship. Ambassador Kuneralp also assessed Turkey’s […]
This Week in Turkey (211): with Çiğdem Nas on Turkey-EU relations
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Çiğdem Nas, who is an associate professor at the political science and international relations department at Yıldız Technical University and the general secretary of the Economic Development Foundation. Professor Nas evaluated the EU Summit decisions regarding Turkey. She assessed why the EU was appeasing Erdoğan despite the repetitive human […]
Greece & Turkey: conflict or dialogue – Interview with journalist Alexandra Voudouri
Alexandra Voudouri, foreign affairs editor and analyst for Macropolis.gr & Athina 9.84 fm, tells Isin Elicin that a new German initiative to bring officials from Greece and Turkey together for talks is underway and Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis is putting his bet on this initiative to work. Also a new poll in Greece shows that […]
This Week in Turkey (181): with Rafet Akgünay on the rising tension in the Eastern Mediterranean
This Week in Turkey’s guest was Dr. Rafet Akgünay. Dr. Akgünay is a retired ambassador and currently teaches at the Middle Eastern Technical University’s Northern Cyprus Campus. Ambassador Akgünay evaluated the current tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean in light of Turkish-Greek historical relations.
This Week in Turkey (179): with Sinan Ülgen on the rising tension in the Eastern Mediterranean
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Sinan Ülgen, who is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, chairman of the Istanbul-based think tank EDAM -The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies – and a former diplomat. Mr. Ülgen evaluated the rising tension in the Eastern Mediterrenean in light of Turkey’s foreign policy strategy and […]
Interview with Nicholas Danforth: “The US is not in a position to really help Ankara in Idlib, even if that would win back Turkey”
Işın Eliçin spoke to Nicholas Danforth, a senior visiting Fellow for the German Marshall Fund, about the strained Turkey-US relations and asked whether there is an opportunity for improvement in the light of the latest tensions between Ankara and Moscow.
This Week in Turkey (147): with Sinan Ülgen on Turkey’s motion to deploy troops to Libya
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Sinan Ülgen, who is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, chairman of the Istanbul-based think tank EDAM -The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies – and a former diplomat. Mr. Ülgen provided insight on the motion to deploy troops to Libya that was approved by the […]
This Week in Turkey (123): Eastern Mediterranean drilling crisis with Faruk Loğoğlu
Turkey’s former Washington ambassador Faruk Loğoğlu comments on the mounting tension off the coast of Cyprus over Turkey’s drilling operations. Loğoğlu contends that the negative reactions from the EU, US and Russia have put Turkey in a difficult position even though Turkey is exercising a legitimate right by drilling for natural gas in the Eastern […]
This Week in Turkey (114): With Ünal Çeviköz on Istanbul election re-run and US-TR tension in East Mediterranean
CHP Deputy Chairman and former ambassador Ünal Çeviköz comments on the Supreme Election Board’s decision to re-run the mayoral election in Istanbul and the recent tensions between Turkey and U.S. in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Regional Relations and the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Fields: Exclusive interview with Alon Liel
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