“Unutmayın, Türkiye Kosova’dır, Kosova Türkiye’dir” (Türkiye is Kosovo, Kosovo is Türkiye): these were the words pronounced by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then Türkiye’s Prime Minister, at the time when he came to the second largest city of Kosovo, Prizren, in 2013. The statement has been criticized by actors, mostly outside of the Balkan Peninsula, as damaging […]
On 15 July 2008, Ahmet Yıldız left his flat in Istanbul to buy some ice-cream for himself and his partner, who had just returned home from a trip. He had had a full day of studying as there was an important exam the next day. This was the last one he had to sit before
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The 24th of November, Herman Van Rompuy, former conservative Prime minister of Belgium and very first President of the European Council, visited the College of Europe in Natolin to deliver a lecture on the challenges facing the European Union. After sharing his experience with the students and answering their questions, he agreed to sit with
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En avril 2016, je parvins à franchir la frontière de la république séparatiste d’Abkhazie. Cette région de la Géorgie qui fit sécession, soutenue par la Russie, à l’issue d’une guerre contre l’armée géorgienne en 1992-1993 est depuis 1994 de facto indépendante. Mais elle est restée largement non-reconnue jusqu’à la Guerre des Cinq-Jours (2008), qui se
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On the recent transformations of Turkish politics, nationalism, and the perils of historical oversimplification. To many in the West, accustomed to the lulling ebbs and flows of the liberal discourse, the failed Turkish coup on July 15 along with its repressive aftermath seem to further deepen the chasm between Turkey’s increasing authoritarianism and Europe’s continued
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It was a cold Ankara morning and I was running late for school. I took the steep street going to the bus stop, checked my watch, and decided to make a run for it. I caught the bus at the last moment and went to the back seats, as is my wont. The fifteen-minute bus
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