Is the Spirit of Sykes-Picot Still Alive in the Middle East after a Century?
On 16 May, 1916, the famous Sykes-Picot agreement was signed secretly between the United Kingdom and France.
What Turkey Needs is an Industrial Policy
Moreover, after WWII in numerous countries such as France, Finland, Austria, Singapore and Taiwan, governments tried to develop important industries and improve their industrial base with state-owned firms along with protections and subsidies to private firms.
The 2016 Elections in Iran
The nuclear deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 countries which consists of US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany and the consequent lifting of longstanding and burdensome sanctions on the former came shortly before the elections for which the Rouhani government was given credit.
Turkey Debates Presidentialism: Lost in Translation?
Quo Vadis?
But should we stop defending rights against power? Turkey should continue to rationalize its political system as Germany did in 1949 with the Basic Law, France in 1958 with the Fifth Republic, and Britain under Tony Blair in the 1990s.
Between the Privilege of Committing Crime and Political Freedoms: Parliamentary Immunities in Turkey
In several countries of Continental Europe, such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Denmark, legislators enjoy a similar parliamentary immunity to their counterparts in Turkey; and such immunity is applicable in criminal actions.
On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
We do not only see this model in France or Turkey but also in Portugal, Italy, almost all of the former French colonies like Algeria or French West Africa, much of Latin America including Brazil and all of these Mestizo-based otherwise assimilationist American states.
Economic Governance and Central Banking after the Crisis: Between Strategic Planning and Liberalism
France, Scandinavia) and the bulk of the developing world (i.
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
ollowing the coordinated terrorist attacks in which 130 people were killed in Paris on November 13th, many observers (including politicians) declared that France was going through its own “9/11”.
The Syrian Crisis and Turkey-EU Relations
For example, France had accepted 5000 Iraqis and 5000 Syrians; while Germany had accepted 45 thousand people.
Downing of the Russian Jet, the Syrian Civil War and Turkish-Russian Relations
What probably explains the timing of the Russian military intervention in Syria in Fall 2015 were a series of defeats that the Assad regime suffered in the summer of 2015 against the opposition forces that are supported by Turkey, France, and the United States in some cases.
