In the weeks leading up to the Turkish parliamentary elections on 12 June, there was much talk of potential danger in the Turkish and Anglo-American media. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it was claimed, was set to impose a dictatorship of the conservative majority, so people should vote...

In the wake of Croatia's EU accession in mid-2013, it is probable that the Union's enlargement process towards Turkey and the Western Balkans will initially grind to a halt, possibly for a decade or more. How can the EU safeguard nonetheless its position as the driving force behind conflict...

Posle prijema Hrvatske sredinom 2013. godine, može se računati s tim da će proces širenja Evropske unije na Zapadni Balkan i Tursku biti privremeno zaustavljen, možda na deset godina ili čak još duže. Na koji način Evropska unija uprkos tome može da obezbedi da ostane kao pokretačka...

2013 yılının ortasında Hırvatistan'ın üyeliğe kabul edilecek olmasından sonra Avrupa Birliği'nin Batı Balkan ve Türkiye'ye doğru genişleme sürecinin, muhtemelen on yıl veya daha uzun bir süre kesintiye uğraması beklenmektedir. Avrupa Birliği, Balkan ülkelerinde...

The Cypriot presidency of the EU Council has prompted Turkey to step up its efforts to boost international recognition for its self-administrated statelet in the north of the island, using the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as an instrument in its endeavours. Ankara is concomitantly...

European and American commentators warn that Turkey is drifting back into authoritarianism, citing excessive police violence against demonstrators, restrictions on freedom of the press and internet, government interference in the judiciary, purges in the bureaucracy, and an anti-European policy...

For decades, the roughly twenty-nine million Kurds living in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria were regarded primarily as a threat to the territorial integrity of those states and thus to the stability of the Middle East. Today the region is marked by state collapse, rampant terrorism, and signs of...

Rarely has a resolution by the European Union heads of state and government been criticised from such diverse perspectives and positions of vested interest as the EU's agreements with the Turkish government of 29th November 2015 regarding the alleviation of the refugee crisis. Eastern European...

The global increase in Islamist violence, state disintegration in Asia and Africa and the resulting influx of refugees to Europe are forcing the international community to intensify its focus on the promotion of peace in crisis regions and on social reconstruction. It may be useful to draw on...