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Diana Lee

Historyoftruth.com - Armenian Allegations - "AZERBAIJAN IS PRIORITY FOR TURKISH FOREIGN... - 0 views

  • Armenia’s occupation in Azerbasijani lands is against international norms. We do not make any step that conflicts Azerbaijan’s interests
  • Turkey’s foreign policy of zero problems with neighbouring countries is being continued with decisive steps
  • “Nobody can expect Turkey to make steps that would conflict interests of Azerbaijan.”
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  • “Azerbaijan is one of the priorities of Turkish foreign policy and nobody can expect Turkey to make steps that would conflict interests of Azerbaijan.
  • The process will go on if Sarksyan does not come to Turkey but his visit is important about some psychological thresholds.”
  • And there is ethnical tension in Georgia. Parties should produce vision.”
Diana Lee

(Page 1 of 27) - The Clash of Narratives: Turkish Foreign Policy between Islamist Alien... - 0 views

  • Turkey’s  traditional  pro-Western  foreign  policy  has  become highly controversial.
  •   power  relations  in  favour  of  a substantive  turn  in  foreign  policy  towards  the  Muslim  Middle  East. 
  •  Turkish government that led to military intervention in northern  Iraq.  
Diana Lee

Foreign policy - Turkey - 0 views

  • Turkey has been eager for membership in the EU
  • Greece traditionally opposed the entry of Turkey into the union because of the situation in Cyprus.
  • Greek-Turkish relations have undergone significant improvement.
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  • to place Turkey as a candidate for EU membership also helped to continue the thaw in Greece's relations with its eastern neighbor.
  • France, Germany, and Belgium blocked a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreement to have the alliance come to the aid of Turkey in the event of an attack from Iraq.
  • The United States requested Turkey allow the deployment of 62,000 troops for use in a possible invasion of Iraq from the north, a decision voted down by Parliament on 1 March 2003.
  • Turkey fears the Iraqi Kurds will want to unite with Turkey's 12 million Kurds to form an independent Kurdistan.
Diana Lee

Turkey's Foreign Policy Plans in 2009 - 0 views

  • It's planning to boost its foreign policy involvement in the Caucasus, Middle East, Europe and the Mediterranean, senior Turkish diplomats tell TREND.
  • It's planning to boost its foreign policy involvement in the Caucasus, Middle East, Europe and the Mediterranean, senior Turkish diplomats tell TREND.
  • looking to modernize
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  • that liberalization, which is connected to EU integration, is weakening the role and power of the military
  • more compatible with the outside world.
  • the Mediterranean Union, the brainchild of the French President Nicholas Sarkozy, as an alternative path for Turkey’s interaction with Europe.
  • "Turkey wants a globally effective NATO, a stronger Turkish-American cooperation, as well as Turkey in the EU. It is vital for the peace, stability, and cooperation," says a senior Turkish diplomat who visited Washington last month.
  • Turkey is among the most anti-American Muslim societies. Anti-Semitism,
  • Prime Minister Erdogan smashed Israel’s operation in Gaza as "inhumane", coming across as a Hamas supporter.
  • high-level contacts between Turkey and Armenia
  • Turkey supports territorial integrity of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia as part of Georgia.
  • the U.S. and EU will be accommodated or integrated into the Caucasus initiative.
  • Russia and Turkey, together with the three South Caucasus countries ( Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), but omitted the U.S. and EU, as well as Iran.
  • Turkey is an important energy transit country.
  • Abdullah Gul, Ilham Aliev and Gurbanguli Berdymuhammedov, in port of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian coast
  • It also showed that Turkey could play a major role in its implementation.
  • Turkey played a positive role in Afghanistan,
  • watch closely how the incoming Obama administration deals with the Armenian genocide resolution, which the Armenian lobby and its supporters in Congress propose yearly to the U.S. government.
  • Turkey is willing to participate in tighter sanctions against Iran, if and when sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council
  • the relations between the U.S. and Turkey will remain complex,
  • from the Caucasus to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, which dictate further dialogue
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