Recently added articles from Insight Turkey:
Editor's note.(minister of foreign affairs' Ahmet Davutoglu)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Turkish political scene did not witness a profound change with the local elections of March 2009. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) continued its strong electoral performance and maintained its status as the most popular political force. One change following the ...
Can Islam and modernity be reconciled?(Commentaries)(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... The birth of modernity in northwest Europe is generally dated to the middle of the eighteenth century, although sometimes it is considered to have begun in the seventeenth century with the publication of Rene Descartes's Discourse on the Method in 1637. However, the advent of modernity was ...
Iran's presidential election: the failure of managed functionalism.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Elections have served to perpetuate the factional pluralism inherent in the Islamic Republic since its inception. While elections are not agents of democratization or de-democratization by themselves in the Islamic Republic, they do significantly affect the balance of power among competing ...
Black Turks, white Turks: on the three requirements of Turkish citizenship.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Long before the White Turks/Black Turks distinction gained currency, the dominant academic metaphor for the analysis of Turkish society was based around the Center and Periphery model, introduced to the Turkish context by Serif Mardin in his "Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish ...
Armenian-Turkish rapprochement: timing matters.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Starting sometime in late April-early May 2009, the progress of Armenian-Turkish rapprochement apparently began to lose speed. In the diplomatic field proper, nothing or almost nothing seems to have happened since April 22, the day the foreign ministers of Armenia and Turkey, with the ...