Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk" produced 20 items.
| 1. Tradition and transformation | April 15, 2010 |
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Turkey faces challenges on many fronts in its efforts to reform. Relations between Turkey and its main allies in the EU and the United States have been tense in recent... |
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| 2. Hoping to be a good neighbour to east and west | April 15, 2010 |
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As its isolationist instincts decline, Turkey is trying to promote a policy of ‘zero problems' with its neighbours, while pushing for EU membership. Western observers... | |
| 3. Turkey's crisis calls for EU therapy | July 31, 2008 |
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The EU must help Turkey discover its political destiny. The constitutional court case against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and... |
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| 4. A difficult relationship strained by internal strife on both sides | July 17, 2008 |
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Since modern Turkey was founded by Atatürk in 1923, the country's ties with Europe have steadily grown, but it is to early to say if it will ever join the EU. Ever... |
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| 5. Turkey urged to speed up reforms | May 21, 2008 |
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European Parliament warns of further delays in accession process if Turkey fails to turn commitments into plans.
The European Parliament has thrown its weight behind a... | |
| 6. Turkey eases curb on free speech | April 30, 2008 |
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Turkish parliament amends but does not scrap controversial law on insults to national identity.
In an eagerly anticipated move, the Turkish parliament late on 29 April... |
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| 7. Turkey urged to bolster reforms | April 22, 2008 |
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European Parliament describes efforts to reform lawbook as “merely a first step”. |
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| 8. Animal champion | April 9, 2008 |
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The father of London's would-be mayor and the author of the novel “The Commissioner” looks back at his “most wonderful job” – in the Commission in Brussels. If... |
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| 9. Turkey's division unites its EU detractors | May 16, 2007 |
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Only the brave or the foolish would bet on Turkey's joining the European Union sometime in the next ten years. Public support is on the wane on both sides and there are... | |
| 10. Europeanisation and its enemies | December 21, 2005 |
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In turkey two deeply-rooted forces are confronting each other: nationalism versus cosmopolitanism. The clash has crystallised in a series of legal actions springing from the... | |
| 11. How Islam has brought stability to Turkey | September 29, 2005 |
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IN 1997, after the forcible resignation of the Islamist government of Necmettin Erbakan, few would have predicted that within five years Turkey would have an Islamic party... | |
| 12. 'Bazaar bartering' may prove testing | September 29, 2005 |
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Luxembourg's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn remarked after December's tempestuous negotiations with Turkey that Ankara had a lot to learn about negotiating with... | |
| 13. Let citizens decide Turkey's fate | October 28, 2004 |
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Geographically speaking, Turkey is as European a country as France can pretend to be ... South American (if Turkish European soil is compared to French Guyana). With less... | |
| 14. Turkish reform drive wins praise from Parliament | October 7, 2004 |
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THE Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was praised in the European Parliament yesterday (6 October) for introducing more reforms in the past two years than previous... | |
| 15. EU-Turkey talks to get OK next week, but human rights still a massive issue | September 30, 2004 |
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FRITS Bolkestein has warned that the victory of Christianity over Islam at the 1683 Battle of Vienna might be in vain if Turkey joins the EU. His Austrian colleague Franz... | |
| 16. Turkey: hoping for a ‘Yes', fearing a ‘No' | May 19, 2004 |
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IN ANKARA and Istanbul, there is a sense of everyone holding their breath: will the big package of reforms passed at the start of May in the Turkish parliament be, as... | |
| 17. Turkey membership bid cannot be judged on the basis of misguided clichés | November 20, 2003 |
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WESTERN Europeans are still sceptical about Turkish membership of the EU. Those who make the argument against Turkey tend to use a series of controversial arguments, which... | |
| 18. Young Turk on the rise | October 31, 2002 |
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TAXI drivers are considered the barometers of public opinion in many countries. In Turkey they're reputedly predicting that one man will be the big winner in this Sunday's (3... | |
| 19. Warrior poet | March 25, 1999 |
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BÜLENT Ecevit never loses his ability to surprise. Turkey's caretaker prime minister has confounded predictions that his lame-duck interim government would lead the country... | |
| 20. Building bridges across the Bosporus | December 10, 1998 |
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The European Commission's new representative to Turkey talks to Gabriel Bullen about the EU's strategy towards the regionKAREN Fogg's arrival in Ankara as the European... | |
