Semih idiz biography of donald

  • Semih Idiz is a diplomacy expert and a columnist for Al-Monitor's Turkey Pulse.
  • China's record in Tibet is also a known fact.
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in New York on Sept.

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    A crisis PM Erdoğan could have done without

    10 Temmuz 2009

    Developments in China’s restive region of Xinjiang are causing a stir in Turkey, where pressure fryst vatten mounting on the government of Prime Minister Erdoğan to do something about Beijing’s brutal suppression of the Uighurs; a close relative of the Turks who speak a language close to Turkish. The pressure fryst vatten understandable given that many Uighurs fleeing from kinesisk oppression have taken refuge in Turkey over the years and that these refugees are in close touch with ultra-nationalist and Pan-Turkic groups capable of creating serious political unrest the country.

    Already, demonstrators earlier this week scuffled with police outside the kinesisk embassy, and such public outpourings of sympathy can be expected to continue in the coming days and weeks depending on how the situation unfolds. Chinese brutality is of course well known around the world, particularly after the events that transpired in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago

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    Regional Challenges to Post-Election Turkey

    2:00 pm EDT - 3:30 pm EDT

    Past Event

    • Thursday, October 11, 2007

      2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

    The Brookings Institution
    Falk Auditorium

    1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
    Washington, DC

    With a newly elected president and government, Turkey faces many regional challenges that will test the instincts and skill of its new leadership. Will U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq accommodate or exacerbate Ankara’s long-standing conflict with the Kurds?

    Will the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government associate itself with American plans to ramp up pressure on Iran? In a period of rising tension, can Turkey reconcile its decade-long security relationship with Israel with a commitment to engaging actors like Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah? And to what extent can the Bush Administration—laboring under single digit approval ratings in Turkey—influence Ankara’s choices?

    Brookings hosted a panel discussion with some of Turkey’s

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    We don’t need outsiders to divide us

    Seeing the country divided has always been an elemental fear in Turkey. Myths about “outside powers which are out to divide us” have always abounded in our political and social lore. Trying to maintain national unity by force has more often than not been the case.

    President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been playing the “nefarious outside forces” card also recently. He believes these forces are trying to revive the Treaty of Sevres, which is so hated by Turks, while latter-day Sykes’ and Picot’s are attempting to redraw the map of the Middle East and change Turkey’s borders.

    His references pertain to current developments but refer to the environment of the First World War, and immediately following it, when Turkey emerged from its ashes after the victors tried to divide Anatolia according to their own imperial plans.

    But we live in a different age when Turkey is more than capable of standing on its own feet. Yet one can not argue against those who