By Zhyldyz Oskonbaeva (RIEAS Senior Advisor & Eurasian Liaison)
On a number of levels, the situation between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the ethnic Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey is creating a power shift that no one is discussing. In this article, I will explain why: 1) The Kurds have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve a political homeland; 2) Tehran's strategy of expanding Shia influence over the Sunnis is ...
... the Eurasian Economic Union, in turn, are interested in expanding their trade flows into East Asia.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan stated during the 24 October 2013 meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council in Minsk that Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan was showing interest in joining the Customs Union
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. At a meeting in St Petersburg in November 2013 Erdogan confirmed at least his desire to sign a free trade zone treaty with the Customs Union
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. It would ...
On October 17, 2014, RIAC and Turkish Global Relations Forum held a working meeting with participation of RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Member Ambassador Pyotr Stgegny, Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova, former Turkish ambassador to NATO and United Nations Umit Pamir, Forum's President Memduh Karakullukcu's and Programs Director Nigar Agaogullari.
The participants focused on discussing current bilateral issues, the situation in Ukraine and Syria...
... sovereign bases have turned it into an indispensable partner of the West. The island has large expatriate populations from mainland Greece, Russia and the UK, maintains vital economic interests in the wider Middle East, but remains partially occupied by Turkey which has dispatched thousands of soldiers for the protection of an increasing expatriate population of Turkish nationals on the northern part of the island.
The resolution of the Cyprus conflict poses a major challenge given that it is at core ...
... interim period as the de facto presidential system.
Even though there are loopholes in the constitution that grant the president certain executive powers such as the authority to be head of the council of ministers, the conventional path of politics in Turkey evolved in such a way that former presidents of the Republic chose not to directly intervene into the policymaking processes of governments. Yet Erdogan intends to change this tradition. Just before the presidential elections, Erdogan exclaimed ...
The Rise and Fall of the Turkish “Trading State” in the Middle East: Increasing Cooperation and Regional Integration Following the Arab Spring
Upon the rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) to power in 2002, Turkey embarked on an activist foreign policy in the Middle East. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu, who was previously Prime Minister Erdoğan’s chief foreign policy adviser, argued in his famous book Strategic Depth that the Middle ...
... International Affairs Council, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Özdem Sanberk
Director of the International Strategic Research Organisation, former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Paul Quilès
Former Defence Minister and former President of the Defence and Armed Forces Committee of the National Assembly (France);
Hervé Morin
Former Defense Minister and Leader of the New Center party (France);
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he event gathered young foreign affairs experts and scholars from Russia represented by RIAC Program Assistant Anna Kuzmina, the United States, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Palestine, Israel, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and other countries.
Opened by Dimitrios
Triantaphyllou, Director of the Center for International and European Studies, the event was composed of two parts, the first presenting a series ...
Relations between Russia and Turkey today remain stable and friendly, despite being severely tested by the Syrian crisis and the deterioration of Russia's ties with the West due to the events in Ukraine.
According to Russian Turkey experts Natalia Ulchenko and Pavel Shlykov, "in ...
“Close your eyes and you’re not sure if it’s an Israeli or a Saudi speaking.”
That’s what Daniel Levy, Middle East director at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), told The New York Times in an article dated March 31st. The ECFR, which has called for a greater role for Al Qaeda in Algeria to “promote democracy,” is funded mainly by George Soros.
The New York Times sourced Levy about the latest attempt by Israel and Saudi Arabia to cooperate...
