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Green Growth Path: The Future Growth Paradigm for Turkey

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The world economy today is facing a significant risk being plunged back into recession, especially with the current debt crises and budget deficits that large parts of the world are experiencing and the political and economical instabilities especially in the Arab region; in addition to the increasing rate of natural and climatic disasters hitting large parts of the world affecting the economic and social conditions of the harmed countries.

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Dünya ekonomisi bugünlerde ekonomik bunalıma saplanma riskiyle karşı karşıya. Özellikle dünyanın büyük bir kısmının yaşadığı mevcut borç krizleri ve bütçe açıkları ile, başta Arap bölgesinde olmak üzere yaşanan siyasi ve ekonomik istikrarsızlıklara ek olarak artan doğal ve iklimsel afetler, dünyanın büyük bir kısmına darbe vuruyor, zarar görmüş ülkelerin ekonomik ve sosyal durumlarını etkiliyor.

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Book Recently Published: Beyond a Divided Cyprus: A State and Society in Transformation

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edited by Nicos Trimikliniotis and Umut Bozkurt,

Palgrave Macmillan, November 2012

A postcolonial island in possession of natural gas reserves and previously known for its long-drawn-out conflict and ethnic divisions, Cyprus is one of the most militarized zones in the world, with foreign armies and two British bases. This volume deals with transformations in Cyprus’s regional and global situation, mapping socio-political realities both embedded in the local context and simultaneously interwoven with regional factors, particularly in the triangle of Turkey, Greece, and the EU. Ultimately, the volume rethinks how changes in a boundary society can tell something about worlds in the making.

For further details: http://us.macmillan.com/beyondadividedcyprus/NicosTrimikliniotis

Research Turkey International Conference Programme

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Research Turkey is pleased to announce its first international conference ‘What Do the Global Trends Suggest, What Do the Recent Amendments Really Amend?’to be held on December 13 and 14,2012 at Culture and Convention Centre, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

This 2-day conference organized jointly by ResearchTurkey and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Middle East Technical University aims to investigate current trends and changes in Turkish education policy by locating them within the wider context of globalization.

Please find below the draft programme for the conference. This conference is free and open to all but registration by e-mailing [email protected] is required.

For more detailed information please visit ;
conference blog at http://exploringturkeyseducation.blogspot.com/

Research Turkey website http://researchturkey.org/dev/?p=2282
METU website http://www.metu.edu.tr/exploring-turkeys-education-policy-conference
or Research Turkey events’ website http://www.researchturkeyevents.com/
View the full programme and/or download it as a PDF file

 

European Conference on Social Science Research

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19 to  21 June 2013
Istanbul, Turkey

IASSR and Marmara University – School of Business Administration organizes European Conference on Social Science Research on June 19-21, 2013 at Marmara University-School of Business Administration in Istanbul, Turkey.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 March 2013

Website: http://www.iassr.org/

Contact person: Hasan Arslan

Book Recently Published: Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Constructions of European Identity Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU

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Senem Aydin-Düzgit, Constructions of European Identity Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

This book examines EU discourses on Turkey in the European Commission, European Parliament and three EU member states (France, Germany and Britain), to reveal the discursive construction of European identity through EU representations of Turkey. Based on a poststructuralist framework that conceptualizes identity as discursively constructed through difference, the book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to the analysis of texts and argues that there are multiple Europe(s) that are constructed in talks over the enlargement of Turkey, varying within and between different ideological, national and institutional contexts. The book discerns four main discourse topics over which these Europe(s) are constructed, corresponding to the conceptualization of Europe as a security community, as an upholder of democratic values, as a political project and as a cultural space. The book argues that Turkey constitutes a key case in exploring various discursive constructs of European identity, since the talks on Turkey pave the way for the construction of different versions of Europe in discourse.

Please see for further info:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=532504

EUI Doctoral Grants

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The EUI in Florence, Italy has 160 doctoral grants to award in Economics, History and Civilisation, Law, and Political and Social Sciences.
Deadline is 31 January 2013.
More information:
http://www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/DoctoralProgramme/Index.aspx

Syria, Turkey and the Middle East: To Intervene Or Not To Intervene?

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To Intervene or Not to Intervene?Is That the Question?

Clashes in Syria between the rebels and the Assad regime are growing in violence every day. While the country is burning in the flames of civil war, neither Germany nor other European countries look favourably upon military intervention. If we bear in mind that things did not go to plan in Afghanistan and that intervention in Iraq not only had no legitimate grounds from the beginning but also brought about a long and bloody chaos, this reluctance is not hard to understand. The preference for non-military alternatives becomes even more understandable when we look at the matter from the perspective of domestic policy, and consider the upcoming federal elections in Germany.

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Interview with Mr. Hasip Kaplan (BDP Deputy) : Kurdish Problem and Being the Voice of the ‘Others’

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One of the most serious anomalies of Turkish politics is the closing of political parties. The number of political closed parties reached 28 with the closure of Democratic Society Party (DTP). Although the name of the new party, which is established after closure changes the motto of the new political party remains the same. When such a party tradition is expressed, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) immediately comes to mind as the actor who tries to voice Kurdish issue and demolish the taboos that are not dared to be discussed. As ResearchTurkey, we have conducted an interview with Mr. Hasip […]
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