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Tuğgeneral (E.) Haldun SOLMAZTÜRK Arshive |
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Libyan Crisis and Turkish-American Relations (11.04.2011)
31 December 2010
Perhaps, from Turkish point of view, it can be better described as three-and-a-half crises, rather than one.. One between the United States and Turkey, one that of France and Turkey, another between NATO and Turkey, and yet a ‘half’ between the Government in Turkey (or rather Prime Minister Erdogan) and the opposition in Libya fighting to depose Qaddafi. |
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A ‘New’ Era In Turkish-American Relations?
31 December 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Turkey was originally scheduled for early February. But it was postponed at the last minute due to historic developments in Egypt which came unexpectedly like, by her words, ‘a perfect storm’, in a clear reference to well-known 2000 movie. |
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What’s the ‘Kabul-Kandil’ Debate Really About?
07 July 2010
Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan, during an interview in Canada last week said that ‘one of NATO’s most important goals was fighting against terrorism’. Since ‘Turkey was a country that fights against terrorism’, NATO members should ‘replicate their cooperation in Afghanistan in other regions and lend their support to this fight’ he said. |
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Dilemma Of The American Policy In The Middle East
24 July 2009
American policy in the Middle East, despite the repeated claims by American policy makers to the contrary, has always been conditioned by the Israeli policy in general and the prevailing domestic political balance in this peculiar country in particular. American Jewish lobby –with all its shade variations- also has been an integral part of this equation. |
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Excellent Performance, but to What ‘End’?
09 June 2009
In this part of the world people are not very fond of reading but they love ‘talking’. That’s why they create their own living gods –at all levels of society- out of skilfull orators –sometimes demagogues, and then worship them. It is the dominant culture of ‘relations’ not a culture of ‘merits and virtues’ which provides the basis for tribalism, secteranianism and ruling dynasties still widespread in the region, from Saudi Arabia to Kazakhistan, and to a degree even in Turkey. |
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Democracy and the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ *
04 June 2009
An analogy of ‘marketplace’ by two prominent scholars, Snyder&Ballentine, would be appropriate to start with since this article is mainly related to this very basic idea; “Just as economic competition produces socially beneficial results, only in a well-institutionalized marketplace, where monopolies and false advertising are counteracted, so too increased debate in the political marketplace leads to better outcomes only when there are mechanisms to correct market imperfections”. |
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A Crisis; Stupidly ‘Invented’, Wisely (?) Resolved...
05 April 2009
The NATO summit in Strasbourg-Kehl witnessed an unexpected and certainly unnecessary crisis over the selection of the new Secretary General to replace Jaap de Hoop Schaffer in August. That was absolutely the last thing NATO needed. It is difficult to comprehend how NATO officials in Brussels and some member countries, Germany being the foremost, let this happen if they did not intentionally invent it. But the amazing thing was how it was resolved. |
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OBAMA IS COMING. HURRAY..!
30 March 2009
A string of visits by many administration officials, or by those who claim connections to the new American administration, to include the recent much publicised visit by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, preceded President Obama’s highly anticipated visit to Turkey on April 5th. Regarding the meaning, scope and potential results of this allegedly ‘historic’ visit, one of these visitors politely suggested caution; “I would not overread this (visit)”. Perhaps some sober thought rather than euphoria should rule the day. |
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Tuğgeneral (E.) Haldun SOLMAZTÜRK
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