THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Conservative & Free Market Analysis of Government, Politics & Public Policy, Covering
Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic, Cultural, Military, International, &
Geopolitical Issues
PUBLIC ISSUES & POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES
TURKEY, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE U.S.A.
TURKEY, MILITANT ISLAM, & EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: HOW TURKEY'S POPULACE, ONCE DEEMED THE MOST SECULAR, CONSTITUTIONAL &
DEMOCRATIC IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, IS REVERTING TO ITS ISLAMIC HERITAGE, COMPLETE WITH ANIMOSITY FOR THE INFIDEL WEST & DREAMS OF ISLAM'S
GLORY DAY'S OF JIHAD & CONQUEST -- THE CONFLICT OVER USE OF HAGIA SOPHIA, CHRISTENDOM'S GREATEST CATHEDRAL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS &
CURRENTLY A CHRISTIAN CENTER UNDER ISLAMIC DOMINATION -- YET ANOTHER REMINDER OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD'S DOUBLE STANDARDS
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Volume XIV, Issue # 118, June 8, 2012
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
GREATEST CHURCH SOON TO BE MEGA MOSQUE?
By Raymond Ibrahim
RUTHLESS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST: THE DECADE-LONG HONEYMOON BETWEEN THE TURKISH & SYRIAN POLITICAL
REGIMES RAPIDLY COMING TO AN END -- SYRIA SINKING DEEPER & DEEPER IN THE THOES OF CIVIL WAR -- TURKEY'S AKP GOVERNMENT COLD-SHOULDERING
THE BAATHIST REGIME IN SYRIA & OPENLY SIDING WITH THE REBELS -- REASONS FOR TURKEY'S SHIFT IN FOREIGN POLICY VIS-A-VIS SYRIA -- TURKEY & ITS
NEO-OTTOMAN ASPIRATIONS -- SYRIA, TURKEY, & THE KURDS -- TURKEY, IRAN, & THE WEST
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Volume XIV, Issue # 66, April 4, 2012
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKISH-SYRIAN RELATIONS GO DOWNHILL
By Dr. Damla Aras
GREECE, GREEK ISLANDS, CYPRUS, ISRAEL, TURKEY, & MIDDLE EASTERN GEOPOLITICS: KASTELORIZO, EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES, & MASSIVE
OFF-SHORE GAS & OIL DISCOVERIES -- THE EMERGING ALLIANCE OF GREECE, CYPRUS, & ISRAEL -- MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO TRANSPORT CYPRIOT & ISRAELI
NATURAL GAS OR ELECTRICITY TO WESTERN EUROPE WITHOUT TURKEY'S PERMISSION -- HEIGHTENED TURKISH AGGRESSIVENESS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 27, February 7, 2012
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
KASTELORIZO: MEDITERRANEAN FLASHPOINT?
By
Dr. Daniel Pipes
JUAN COLE'S SKEWED VIEW OF THE MIDDLE EAST: IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ACCORDING TO COLE, IRAN JUSTIFIABLY
PROTECTS ITS OWN INTERESTS; THE U.S.A. IS A MALIGNANT & AGGRESSIVE FORCE; ISRAEL IS AMERICA'S TRIGGER-HAPPY
SATELLITE; TURKEY'S RULING PARTY (AKP) IS HEADED BY A PRACTICAL & DEMOCRATIC PRIME MINISTER, RECEP TAYYIP
ERDOGAN, WHO PROMOTES "MIDDLE EASTERN MULTICULTURALISM"; AN ISLAMIST PARTY IN TUNISIA, CALLED
ENNAHDA, DOES THE SAME. COLE DISPLAYS A GENERAL TOLERANCE FOR POLITICALLY HOSTILE SENTIMENTS TOWARD
AMERICA & ISRAEL IN THE ARAB WORLD. COLE ARGUES THAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES ARE BULLIES & MANIPULATORS.
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Volume XIII, Issue # 272, November 11, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
JUAN COLE -- CRITIC OF DEMOCRACY, APOLOGIST FOR TYRANNY:
JUAN COLE'S TOTALITARIAN ODYSSEY
By Alan Jacobs
CYPRUS, ISRAEL, & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: CYPRUS BEING THREATENED BY AN OVER-CONFIDENT & POSSIBLY
MESSIANIC TURKISH POLITICAL REGIME THAT INCREASINGLY MANIFESTS ROGUE ATTRIBUTES -- PROPOSALS FOR A
FULL-ON ALLIANCE BETWEEN CYPRUS & ISRAEL -- THE ADVANTAGES THAT CYPRUS WOULD DERIVE FROM SUCH AN
ISRAELI-CYPRIOT ALLIANCE -- WHAT ISRAEL WOULD GAIN FROM THE ALLIANCE -- THE IMPORTANT ROLES THAT THE
U.S.A., NATO, GREECE, & THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION NEED TO PLAY IN ENCOURAGING CYPRIOT-ISRAELI RELATIONS &
THEREBY DIMINISHING THE LIKELIHOOD OF AKP-LED TURKISH AGGRESSION
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Volume XIII, Issue # 245, October 11, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
CYPRUS ON THE WORLD STAGE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
WHY TURKEY MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS STATES IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION: TURKEY'S
GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONTROL & DIRECTION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGUES IN THE AKP -- A POLITICAL OPPOSITION
THAT IS WORST THAN THE AKP -- TURKEY FACING AN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL COLLAPSE -- TURKEY FACING ESCALATING
PROBLEMS WITH THE KURDS' CURRENT SEPARATIST REVOLT -- TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & HIS
ISLAMIST COLLEAGUES LOOKING FOR A FIGHT WITH ISRAEL -- RENEWAL OF ISRAEL'S HISTORICALLY WARM RELATIONS
WITH THE KURDS & REVERSAL OF ITS COOL RELATIONS WITH GREECE, CYPRUS, & ARMENIA -- TURKEY ASSERTING RIGHTS
OVER MEDITERRANEAN ENERGY RESERVES -- TURKEY'S OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS
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Volume XIII, Issue # 239, September 27, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
IS TURKEY GOING ROGUE?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
THE SORRY STATE OF MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN TURKEY: CHRISTOPHOBIA & THE WAR AGAINST THE
CHURCH IN TURKEY -- WIDESPREAD ISLAMIC TURKISH PERCEPTIONS OF THE SMALL CHRISTIAN MINORITY LIVING WITHIN
THE COUNTRY -- THE WIDELY-ACCEPTED NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF CHRISTIANS AS DANGEROUS, SUBVERSIVE ALIENS
WITHIN TURKISH SOCIETY -- LITTLE SCOPE FOR THE FULL INTEGRATION OF CHRISTIANS & OTHER NON-MUSLIMS INTO THE
LIFE OF THE TURKISH NATION -- UNWILLINGNESS OF PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & HIS ISLAMIST
GOVERNMENT TO BREAK FROM TURKEY'S HISTORIC TRADITION OF ISLAMIC & ETHNIC TURKISH SUPREMACISM --
PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION, & VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS
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Volume XIII, Issue # 126, May 19, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S CHRISTIANS UNDER SEIGE
By Dr. John Eibner
TURKEY, ISLAMISM, & TURKISH AMBITIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE OBJECTIVES OF CONTEMPORARY TURKISH
FOREIGN POLICY -- THE ISLAMIST CHARACTER OF TURKEY'S CURRENT POLITICAL REGIME -- PRESENT-DAY TURKEY AS AN
ALLY OF IRAN, SYRIA, & LIBYA & AS AN ENEMY OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES TO
THWART TURKEY'S AMBITION TO LEAD & RESHAPE THE ISLAMIST REVOLUTION IN THE MUSLIM WORLD -- POSSIBLE
METHODS TO BLOCK AKP INFLUENCE
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Volume XIII, Issue # 92, April 12, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
AMBITIOUS TURKEY
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & THE "AL-QADDAFI INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS":
ERDOGAN'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIZE & ACCOMPANYING SPEECH IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA, THREE MONTHS AGO PRETTY
WELL DEFINES HIS PERSONALITY, CHARACTER, & IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION.
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Volume XIII, Issue # 59, February 28, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ERDOGAN & THE "AL-QADDAFI PRIZE"
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
THE ONGOING RIFT BETWEEN TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & SENIOR DIPLOMATS IN THE TURKISH
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: THE PERCEIVED CLASS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DIPLOMATS & THE RIGHTWING
POLITICAL PARTIES, WHICH HAVE THEIR ROOTS IN & REPRESENT MOSTLY RURAL AREAS & THE URBAN WORKING CLASS
& WHICH VIEW THE DIPLOMATS AS AN ELITIST GROUP THAT LOOKS DOWN ON THE COMMON CITIZEN -- THE IDEOLOGICAL
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SENIOR DIPLOMATS & TURKEY'S RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) -- THE
AMBASSADORS AS KEMALISTS, WHO SEEK TO EXTRICATE TURKEY FROM ITS OTTOMAN IMPERIAL PAST & TRANSFORM IT
INTO AN INTEGRAL PART OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE AKP AS THE PARTY WHOSE LEADERSHIP COMES FROM THE
ISLAMIST MOVEMENT & SEEKS TO TURN ITS BACK ON ISRAEL & ESTABLISH CLOSER TIES WITH ISLAMIC STATES SUCH AS
SYRIA & IRAN & ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS HAMAS
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Volume XIII, Issue # 54, February 22, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S AMBASSADORS VERSUS ERDOGAN
By Dr. Damla Aras
IMPLICATIONS OF THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EAST, & THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR UNITED
STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE REGION: EXPOSURE OF AN "ARAB COLD WAR" PARADIGM
CRUCIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE MIDDLE EAST -- CONCERNS OF U.S. ALLIES OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM PROOF OF
A MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- WHAT THE WIKILEAKS
REVELATIONS INDICATE, AS REGARDS U.S. FOREIGN POLICYMAKERS' PERCEPTION & UNDERSTANDING OF TURKEY
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Volume XIII, Issue # 8, January 6, 2011
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS: MORE GOOD THAN BAD?
LEE SMITH'S BRIEFING TO THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM
By Alessandra Grace
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE "HOUSE OF ISLAM": THE RESOUNDING FAILURE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA'S POLICIES TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OBAMA'S MISREADING OF THE HISTORY &
WORLDVIEW OF ISLAM -- THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S PANDERING TO ISLAMIC PREJUDICES (INCLUDING HIS GREATLY
HYPED "OUTREACH" PLAN) TO GAIN FOR HIM & HIS PRESIDENCY THE QUIESCENCE, LET ALONE THE RESPECT &
ADMIRATION, OF ARAB & MUSLIM SOCIETIES -- OBAMA'S ILL-CONCEIVED POLICIES OF "ENGAGEMENT" WITH IRAN &
TURKEY & THE ABJECT FAILURE OF THOSE POLICIES -- THE PRESIDENT'S FLAWED POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL & THE
ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- HIS APPROACH TO U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ -- THE NEED FOR OBAMA
TO
RECOGNIZE THE MANICHEAN & IRRECONCILABLE NATURE OF THE CHALLENGE POSED BY OUR ISLAMIC ADVERSARIES --
THE NEED TO REPLACE APPEASEMENT WITH CONTAINMENT & COUNTERATTACK
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Volume XII, Issue # 234, November 3, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADRIFT IN ARABIA
By Dr. Efraim Karsh
THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF TURKEY: WHERE TURKEY IS HEADING UNDER THE RULE OF ERDOGAN & THE AKP --
GENUINE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, OR AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP -- GUARANTEE OF THE BASIC LIBERTIES OF
THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN, OR UNLIMITED RULE BY A TYRANNICAL ISLAMIST MAJORITY, WITH NO PROTECTION OF
MINORITY RIGHTS -- MEMBERSHIP IN THE EUROPEAN UNION & ALLIANCE WITH THE WEST, OR A STRENGTHENING OF
TURKEY'S TIES WITH IRAN, SYRIA, & OTHER ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST
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Volume XII, Issue # 204, September 26, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S FUTURE
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
A QUESTION PROMPTED BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S RAGE OVER WHAT IT CALLS ISRAEL'S "OPEN-AIR JAIL" IN GAZA:
IS ISRAEL IN GAZA REALLY WORSE THAN TURKEY IN CYPRUS? COMPARISON & CONTRAST TO DETERMINE
THE TRUTH -- INSTEAD OF MEDDLING IN GAZA, SHOULD NOT TURKISH LEADERS END TURKEY'S ILLEGAL, DISRUPTIVE,
DECADES-LONG MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS?
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Volume XII, Issue # 131, July 20, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY IN CYPRUS VERSUS ISRAEL IN GAZA
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
TURKEY'S REACTION TO THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT: COULD IT BE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MORE TO
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S RAGE AGAINST ISRAEL THAN JUST A SPONTANEOUS REACTION TO
THE LOSS OF NINE TURKISH LIVES IN THE INCIDENT? TURKEY'S 2011 ELECTIONS AS HOLDING THE ANSWER TO THE
QUESTION OF WHY ERDOGAN DECIDED TO PLAY THE ISRAEL CARD -- WHY TURKEY IS FERTILE GROUND FOR ERDOGAN'S
ANTI-ISRAEL & ANTI-SEMITIC DEMAGOGUERY -- ANTI-AMERICANISM IN TURKEY & THE REASONS FOR ITS EXISTENCE --
ANTI-ZIONISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, & ANTI-AMERICANISM AS MUTUALLY REINFORCING & CONVERGING POLITICAL FORCES
IN TURKEY
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Volume XII, Issue # 98, June 10, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ERDOGAN & THE ISRAEL CARD
By Steven J. Rosen
TURKISH POLICY & THE FUTURE OF ISLAMISM: THE ISLAMISTS' RISE TO POWER IN TURKEY -- PRIME MINISTER
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S ISLAMIST OUTLOOK -- INCREASED AUTHORITARIANISM IN TURKEY -- TURKEY'S MORE
BELLIGERENT APPROACH TO FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- TURKEY & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR BUILDUP --
TURKEY & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S TIES TO AL-QA'IDA -- ISLAMISM 2.0 & ISLAMISM
1.0 IN TURKEY -- TURKEY, THE U.S.A., & NATO -- TURKEY'S OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES
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Volume XII, Issue # 96, June 8, 2010
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ISLAMIST TURKEY OVERREACHES
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
THE DECLINING VIABILITY & VALUE OF TURKEY'S ALLIANCE WITH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST
POLITICAL REGIME & THE GROWING UNRELIABILITY & DANGER OF TURKEY AS A MEMBER-STATE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
TREATY ORGANIZATION -- NATO AS AN INSTITUTION HOBBLED & WEAKENED WITHIN BY AN ISLAMIST TURKEY -- NATO
AS AN ALLIANCE FEARFUL OF OFFENDING A MEMBER-GOVERNMENT & THEREFORE INCAPABLE OF STANDING UP TO THE
WEST'S MAIN ENEMY TODAY, NAMELY MILITANT ISLAM -- THE NEED FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF REMOVING TURKEY
FROM MEMBERSHIP IN NATO
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Volume XI, Issue # 97, April 6, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
DOES TURKEY STILL BELONG IN NATO?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
THE GROWING ISLAMIST THREAT IN TURKEY: THE RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) AS THE CHIEF
INSTRUMENT FOR TRANSFORMING TURKEY INTO AN ISLAMIST STATE -- THE AKP WORKING TO ADVANCE AN ISLAMIST
AGENDA & UNDERMINE SECULARISM IN TURKEY -- THE AKP ABANDONING THE COMPROMISING & POWER SHARING THAT
ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE EXISTENCE & EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
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Volume XI, Issue # 14, January 14, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ISLAMISTS' APPROACH TO EUROPE: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST DANGER
By Dr. Bassam Tibi
TURKEY, GEOPOLITICS, & THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM: HOW PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & THE RULING
JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) HAVE CHANGED TURKEY'S FUNDAMENTAL IDENTITY & ITS POSITION IN
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW FETHULLAH GULEN & HIS MOVEMENT ARE WORKING TO TRANSFORM TURKEY INTO AN
ISLAMIST STATE
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Volume XI, Issue # 12, January 12, 2009
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
FETHULLAH GULEN'S AMBITION: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST DANGER
By Rachel Sharon-Krespin
TURKEY, ISLAMISM, & THE RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY: WARDING OFF CONSTITUTIONAL
CHALLENGES TO THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN TURKEY -- INVESTIGATION OF THE SOCALLED "ERGENEKON
CONSPIRACY" -- RETALIATION AGAINST PROMINENT SECULARISTS, CRITICS OF THE AKP GOVERNMENT, & THOSE WHO
DEMAND CONSTITUTIONALISM & THE RULE OF LAW IN TURKEY -- THE ENDEAVOR TO PRESERVE & PERPETUATE THE
ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP IN TURKEY
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Volume X, Issue # 196, August 8, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ERDOGAN, ERGENEKON, & THE STRUGGLE FOR TURKEY
By Dr. Michael Rubin
ISLAM, SECULARISM, & TURKISH POLITICS: THE POLITICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN ISLAM & SECULARISM IN TURKEY --
WHICH OF THE TWO CONTENDING FORCES IS MORE DEMOCRATIC? WHICH OF THE TWO IS MORE AUTOCRATIC?
IS THE POLITICAL REGIME OF TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY,
OR DOES IT CONSTITUTE THE INITIAL STEPS TOWARD ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ANTI-WESTERN, ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP IN
TURKEY? ERDOGAN'S JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY AS AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMIG APPARATUS LACKING
A POLITICAL CULTURE SUPPORTIVE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC IDEALS & PRACTICES
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Volume X, Issue # 166, July 8, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKISH SECULARISM IS DEMOCRATIC
By E. Haldun Solmazturk
THE REBIRTH OF SECULAR GOVERNMENT & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL
CHALLENGE TO ILLEGAL ACTIONS TAKEN BY PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & HIS JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT
PARTY, A CASE TO BE DECIDED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF TURKEY -- EXPECTED OUTCOME OF THE CASE:
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT WILL RULE THAT THE PRIME MINISTER & THE AKP VIOLATED THE PRINCIPLES OF A
DEMOCRATIC & SECULAR REPUBLIC WHICH UNDERGIRD THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION -- THE HIGH COURT WILL DISSOLVE
THE AKP & BAN ERDOGAN & HIS CLOSEST AIDES FROM HOLDING GOVERNMENT OFFICE FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST FIVE
YEARS
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Volume X, Issue # 153, June 21, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE CASE AGAINST TURKEY'S RULING PARTY
By Dr. Michael Rubin
TURKEY'S JUDICIARY AS GUARDIAN OF THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION: DECISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
PROTECTING TURKEY'S SECULAR & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AGAINST THE INROADS OF ISLAMISM &
AUTHORITARIANISM -- UPHOLDING HUMAN RIGHTS & THE RULE OF LAW IN TURKEY & CURBING THE DICTATORIAL
TENDENCIES OF PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & THE ISLAMIC-ROOTED JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- WHY
ERDOGAN & THE AKP SHOULD HAVE NEITHER AMERICAN NOR EUROPEAN SUPPORT FOR THEIR DICTATORIAL AMBITIONS
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Volume X, Issue # 137, June 7, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S PUTIN DESERVES TO GO
By Dr. Michael Rubin
THE HADITH PROJECT: THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPT TO EFFECT A BOLD RE-INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM
& SEPARATE ITS ORIGINAL THEOLOGY FROM THE ACCRETIONS OF FOURTEEN CENTURIES -- THE DANGER THAT THE
PROJECT MAY, BY LIMITING ITS SUBJECT MATTER & AVOIDING SUCH IMPORTANT ISSUES AS THE HEADSCARF, FEMALE
LEGAL RIGHTS, MUSLIM WOMEN MARRYING NON-MUSLIM MEN, RIBBA, JIHAD, THE RIGHTS OF NON-MUSLIMS & THE
CREATION OF AN ISLAMIC POLITICAL & SOCIAL ORDER, PROMOTE ISLAMISM MORE THAN MODERNIZE ISLAM
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Volume X, Issue # 128, May 21, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
IS TURKEY'S GOVERNMENT STARTING A MUSLIM REFORMATION?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, OR AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP?
THE RULE OF LAW & SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION, OR ISLAMIST THEOCRACY & TYRANNY? THE
GOVERNING ELITE & ITS SUPPORTERS LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE, OR ABOVE THE LAW? LEGISLATIVE & EXECUTIVE
SUPREMACY, OR RESPECT FOR THE JUCICIAL PROCESS?
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Volume X, Issue # 112, April 30, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE
By Dr. Michael Rubin
THE RULING REGIME & GULEN MOVEMENT IN TURKEY: THEIR USE OF FABIAN TACTICS TO UNDERMINE TURKISH
CONSTITUTIONALISM & SECULARISM & BRING ABOUT AN ISLAMIST REVOLUTION IN TURKEY -- THREAT TO U.S. FOREIGN
POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- INABILITY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO EFFECTIVELY
PROTECT AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE REGION, DUE TO THE INCOMPETENCE OF POLITICAL APPOINTEES &
CAREER BUREAUCRATS IN THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY APPARATUS
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Volume X, Issue # 101, April 14, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S TURNING POINT:
Could There Be an Islamic Revolution in Turkey?
By Dr. Michael Rubin
IRAQI KURDISTAN & THE U.S.A.: THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE IRAQI KURDS AS A U.S. ALLY -- OBSTACLES TO SUCH
AN ALLIANCE: UNSTABLE, CORRUPT, AUTHORITARIAN, & DOUBLE-DEALING POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN IRAQI
KURDISTAN, THE CORROSIVE IDEOLOGIES OF ISLAMISM & EXTREME NATIONALISM, PKK TERRORISM, IRANIAN
INFILTRATION; THE LONG-STANDING U.S.-TURKISH RELATIONSHIP; AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE
EAST
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Volume X, Issue # 6, January 8, 2008
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
IS IRAQI KURDISTAN A GOOD ALLY?
By Dr. Michael Rubin
TURKEY, KURDISH TERRORISTS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN
THE MIDDLE EAST: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE & ITS ILL-ADVISED DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TOWARD THE PKK,
A STRATEGY THAT WILL LIKELY BACKFIRE ON TURKEY & COULD SERVE TO UNDERMINE WHAT IS LEFT OF U.S. PRESIDENT
GEORGE W. BUSH'S GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM -- THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT'S COUNSELING TURKEY TO OFFER
POLITICAL CONCESSIONS TO THE IRAQI KURDS AND THE PKK, RATHER THAN THE DEPARTMENT'S ADHERING TO A
NO-TOLERANCE POLICY TOWARD TERRORISM -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT TO RECOGNIZE
THAT CONCESSIONS FUEL TERROR, THAT ONLY COERSION & FORCE WORK IN DEALING WITH TERRORISTS & TERROR
ENABLERS, & THAT TURKEY, LIKE ANY OTHER COUNTRY, HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS CITIZENS FROM TERRORISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 237, December 18, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S TERROR PROBLEM IS OURS
By Dr. Michael Rubin
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION & OTHER REPREHENSIBLE & UNPATRIOTIC BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS: POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING, HEADLINE HUNTING, & LEAKING CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION BY PARTISAN DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS UNDERCUT AMERICA'S WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM --
DEMOCRATS EMBOLDEN THE TERRORISTS & ENDANGER THE LIVES OF U.S. SERVICEMEN FIGHTING TERRORISTS IN IRAQ &
AFGHANISTAN -- DEMOCRATS MAKE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THE JOB OF DEFENDING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- DEMOCRATS UNDERMINE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY
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Volume IX, Issue # 192, October 15, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
GRANDSTANDING HAS CONSEQUENCES
By Dr. Michael Rubin
THE BUSH PRESIDENCY & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIPLOMACY &
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW A MAJOR WORLD POWER'S BROKEN PROMISES IMPACT UPON INTERNATIONAL CRISES --
THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DETERIORATING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ONCE-STAUNCH ALLIES SUCH AS TURKEY,
ISRAEL, TAIWAN, JAPAN, & SOUTH KOREA -- HOW WELL HAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIVED UP TO ITS COMMITMENT
TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA & THE
MIDDLE EAST?
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Volume IX, Issue # 144, July 31, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
PRESIDENT BUSH'S BROKEN PROMISES
By Dr Michael Rubin
THE BARZANI FAMILY: KURDISH POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL TREACHERY, & KURDISH NATIONALISM -- SWITCHING
ALLIANCES AS PART OF THE BARZANI FAMILY POLITICAL CULTURE -- MASOUD BARZANI AS AN EXTREMELY
UNREALIABLE ALLY OF THE U.S.A.
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Volume IX, Issue # 66, April 14, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE BARZANI CHAMELEON
By Kamal Said Qadir
KEMALISM: SECULARISM & NATIONALISM AS THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF MODERN TURKEY -- THE STRUGGLE
BETWEEN HARDLINE KEMALISTS & GROUPS RESISTING SECULARISM & NATIONALISM -- LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS,
COMMUNISTS, & ISLAMISTS CHALLENGE STRICT ADHERENCE TO SECULARISM & NATIONALISM AS BEDROCK PRINCIPLES
OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC -- THE GROWING INROADS OF POLITICAL ISLAM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE ARMENIAN
HERITAGE WITHIN TURKEY -- CONTINUING MANIFESTATIONS OF TURKISH NATIONALISM -- TURKEY & EUROPE --THE
SEARCH FOR A COMMON DENOMINATOR THAT CAN UNITE TURKISH SOCIETY
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Volume IX, Issue # 52, March 22, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY IN BOOKS: REVIEW ESSAY
By Fikret Erkut Emcioglu
IRAQ, IRAQI KURDISTAN, ETHNIC FEDERALISM, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: U.S.
SUPPORT FOR KURDISH NATIONALISM & ITS DRIVE TO BRING ABOUT AN INDEPENDENT & UNITED KURDISTAN -- THE
KURDISH NATIONALIST DRIVE & ITS THREAT TO TURKEY'S NATIONAL SECURITY & TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
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Volume IX, Issue # 44, March 10, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ENABLING KURDISH ILLUSIONS
By Dr.Michael Rubin
TURKISH POLITICS & THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM: THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO TURKEY AS A SECULAR STATE -- THE
ISLAMIST ROOTS OF TURKEY'S RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- PRIME MINISTER RECEP ERDOGAN'S USE OF THE
AKP SUPERMAJORITY IN THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO ERODE THE INSTITUTIONS & MECHANISMS AT THE
HEART OF TURKISH SECULARISM -- ISLAMIZING EDUCATION & THE JUDICIARY -- AKP POLITICAL CORRUPTION --
DECLINING AKP POPULARITY & THE COMING SHOWDOWN -- WILL MILITARY INTERVENTION BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT
AN ERDOGAN PRESIDENCY? WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT THE SITUATION IN TURKEY?
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Volume IX, Issue # 22, February 4, 2007
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
WILL TURKEY HAVE AN ISLAMIST PRESIDENT?
By Dr. Michael Rubin
PKK TERRORISM: PROBLEM FOR TURKISH SECURITY & FOR TURKEY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTH THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA & THE EUROPEAN UNION -- WHY THE PKK RESORTS TO VIOLENCE -- THE PKK'S MAOIST IDEOLOGY
-- NO HOPE FOR THE PKK'S SINCERE RENUNCIATION OF VIOLENCE -- THE ONLY REALISTIC APPROACH TO RESOLVING THE
CONFLICT & SOLVING THE PROBLEM: TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE PKK
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Volume VIII, Issue # 229, November 29, 2006
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
CAN THE PKK RENOUNCE VIOLENCE?
TERRORISM RESURGENT
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay
THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM IN TURKEY: ISLAMIST INROADS INTO TURKISH POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, & PUBLIC
POLICY -- EROSION OF DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM, & SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT &
RELIGION IN TURKEY -- HOW INEPT & "POLITICALLY CORRECT" U.S. DIPLOMACY IS PUTTING AT RISK TURKEY'S FUTURE AS
A SECULAR, WESTERN-ORIENTED NATION-STATE & ALLY OF THE U.S.A.
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Volume VIII, Issue # 205, October 24, 2006
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
MR. ERDOGAN'S TURKEY
By Dr. Michael Rubin
YUCEL ASKIN: TURKISH DISSIDENT WHO HAS BEEN IN THE EYE OF THE STORM CENTERING ON ISLAMIST
ENCROACHMENT ON TURKEY'S SECULAR UNIVERSITIES -- DEFENDING CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, & THE
SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION -- RESISTING EFFORTS OF PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & HIS
RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY TO WEAKEN TURKEY'S SECULAR FOUNDATIONS & DESTROY THE INDEPENDENCE
OF THE COUNTRY'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- DEFENDING THE TURKISH REPUBLIC AGAINST THE FORCES OF
POLITICAL ISLAM
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Volume VIII, Issue # 184, September 26, 2006
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
DISSIDENT WATCH: YUCEL ASKIN
By Dr. Michael Rubin
ISRAEL, AZERBAIJAN, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA: THE STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP & ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA -- HOW FAR ARE AZERBAIJANI ELITES WILLING TO PURSUE TIES WITH ISRAEL? WHAT IS
THE RELEVANCE OF THE BAKU-JERUSALEM RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?
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Volume VIII, Issue # 147, August 6, 2006
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN'S FURTIVE EMBRACE
By Illya Bourtman
THE BUSH DOCTRINE & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: SEEKING & SUPPORTING THE
GROWTN OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING
TYRANNY IN THE WORLD -- HOW HARD SHOULD THE U.S.A. PUSH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE
EAST? HOW MUCH EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE POPULAR VOTE & DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS? HOW
SLOW OR FAST SHOULD BE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
DEMOCRACY? SHOULD THE U.S.A BE NEUTRAL IN MIDDLE EASTERN ELECTIONS? HOW IMPORTANT IS
POLITICAL STABILITY? DO ELECTIONS MODERATE ISLAMISTS? IS TURKEY A MODEL FOR
DEMOCRATIZATION? AS REGARDS ITS EFFORTS TO DEMOCRATIZE THE MIDDLE EAST, HOW SHOULD THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION BE GRADED?
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Volume VIII, Issue # 135, July 22, 2006
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
IS DEMOCRACY ABOUT MORE THAN ELECTIONS?
A DEBATE
STATECRAFT & THE USE OF DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE IN THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS: WHY EFFECTIVE FOREIGN POLICY REQUIRES THAT DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE WITH ADVERSARIES BE
CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AN OVERARCHING STRATEGY -- HOW POORLY TIMED NEGOTIATIONS & MISPLACED
CONFIDENCE IN AN ADVERSARY'S SINCERITY CAN HAMPER, RATHER THAN HASTEN, SOLUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL
PROBLEMS -- THE NEED FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO COME TO GRIPS WITH REALITY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
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Volume VIII, Issue # 127, July 15, 2006
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
ALL TALK & NO STRATEGY: THE LIMITS OF DIPLOMACY
By Dr. Michael Rubin
THE CENTRAL PROBLEM IN RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: TURKISH PRIME
MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S DEMONSTRATED ANTIPATHY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, INCLUDING HIS
ACCELERATING ASSAULT ON THE RULE OF LAW, JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT, PRIVATE
PROPERTY RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM & TOLERANCE, & THE DIVISION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS & SECULAR EDUCATION
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Volume VII, Issue # 272, December 12, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY'S NO CASUAL DINING:
THE FORMIDABLE TASK FOR
OUR NEW AMBASSADOR
By Michael Rubin
THE TERROR WAR THAT THE KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY IS WAGING AGAINST TURKEY: PART OF THE GLOBAL TERROR
WAR THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- PKK SATELLITE TELEVISION BROADCASTS FROM
EUROPE, PKK FUNDRAISING IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN NATIONS, & PKK USE OF IRAQI KURDISTAN AS A SAFE HAVEN
UNDERCUTTING THE U.S.-LED WAR ON TERRORISM -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO TERMINATE PKK FUNDRAISING
IN THE U.S.A. & FOR THE U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES TO ERADICATE PKK SAFE HAVENS IN IRAQ & SEAL THE IRAQI BORDER --
WHAT IS AT STAKE: THE U.S.-TURKISH STRATEGIC ALLIANCE & AMERICA'S ABILITY TO WIN THE WAR ON TERRORISM
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Volume VII, Issue # 241, November 3, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
PKK TERRORISM IN TURKEY: SAME GLOBAL TERROR WAR
By Michael Rubin
TURKEY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP & CONTROL OF RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & THE SOCALLED "JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY":
TURKEY'S TURN AWAY FROM TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY OF BELIEF, THE RULE OF LAW, & SECULAR NATIONALISM -- TURKEY'S
MOVE TOWARD MILITANT ISLAM & ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN TURKEY'S
CURRENT POLITICAL REGIME
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Volume VII, Issue # 232, October 21, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKISH TURN BACK?
By Michael Rubin
ARMENIANS, TURKS, & THE DEBATE OVER THE MASSACRES OF ARMENIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING WORLD WAR I:
DID THE MASSACRES CONSTITUTE A GENOCIDE? DID THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT INTENTIONALLY ORGANIZE THE
MASSACRES, DELIBERATELY & CONSCIOUSLY PURSUING THE OBJECTIVE OF COMPLETELY DESTROYING THE ARMENIAN
POPULATION? OR, HAVE THE ARMENIAN PARTISANS FAILED TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR CLAIM THAT THE TURKISH
GOVERNMENT HAD & IMPLEMENTED A PREMEDITATED PLAN OF ANNIHILATION? -- THE NEED FOR EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED
HISTORICAL RESEARCH THAT SEEKS A COMMON POOL OF FIRM KNOWLEDGE -- THE NEED TO RESCUE HISTORY FROM PARTISANS
& IDEOLOGICAL NATIONALISTS WHO HAVE PLUNDERED HISTORY TO SERVE THEIR OWN POLITICAL ENDS
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Volume VII, Issue # 190, August 30, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
REVISITING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
By Guenter Lewy
TURKISH POLITICS, ISLAMISM, & TURKEY'S SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: ISLAMIST INFLUENCE IN THE TURKISH
GOVERNMENT & TURKEY'S DRIFT AWAY FROM CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, THE RULE OF LAW,
JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, & SEPARATION OF STATE & RELIGION -- TURKEY'S MOVEMENT TOWARD A RESURGENCE OF
AUTHORITARIANISM & TOWARD IMPOSITION OF AN ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP
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Volume VII, Issue # 169, August 6, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
FRIED IN TURKEY: IS CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY ON THE OUTS?
By Michael Rubin
TURKEY & ISRAEL -- WHAT THE TWO NATIONS HAVE IN COMMON: EACH NATION HAS A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP WITH
EUROPE & EACH HAS EXPERIENCED AN INTERNAL POPULAR REACTION AGAINST SECULARISM & ELITISM & THE RISE OF
RELIGIOUS-BASED POLITICAL PARTIES
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Volume VII, Issue # 101, May 3, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY & ISRAEL: WHAT BINDS ANKARA & JERUSALEM
By
Soner Cagaplay & Asaf Romirowsky
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, & POLITICAL FINANCE IN TURKEY UNDER THE ABSOLUTE RULE OF PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP
ERDOGAN'S POLITICAL PARTY, THE ADALET VE KALKINMA PARTISI (JUSTICE & RECONCILIATION PARTY): IS THE AKP A
THREAT TO TURKISH SECULARISM? DOES ERDOGAN'S PARTY REPRESENT AN ISLAMIST TROJAN HORSE?
CONTRADICTORY POLITICAL SIGNS & CONSISTENTLY TROUBLING FINANCIAL INDICATORS
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Volume VII, Issue # 40, February 22, 2005
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
GREEN MONEY & ISLAMIST POLITICS IN TURKEY
By
Michael Rubin
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: FREEDOM TO SPEAK ONE'S MIND & FREEDOM TO SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE COMES MOST
READILY TO ONE'S LIPS -- FREEDOM SORELY LACKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Volume VI, Issue # 210, September 27, 2004
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- FREE EXPRESSION IN ANY LANGUAGE:
LINQUISTIC FREEDOM FOR MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
By
Jonathan Eric Lewis
NEO-OTTOMANISM & THE PROFOUND SHIFT THAT HAS OCCURRED IN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY -- REORIENTATION OF TURKISH
POLICY AWAY FROM THE U.S.A. TOWARD EUROPE & THE ISLAMIC WORLD: THE LASTING DAMAGE THE FOREIGN-POLICY
SHIFT HAS DONE TO THE U.S.-TURKISH ALLIANCE & TO TURKEY'S NATIONAL SECURITY
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Volume VI, Issue # 181, August 14, 2004
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
IS TURKEY SHIFTING SIDES?
THE PROBLEMS OF NEO-OTTOMANISM
By
Michael Rubin
THE FAILURE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS THE PRESENCE OF PKK TERRORISTS IN NORTHERN IRAQ & ALONG
TURKEY'S SOUTHERM BORDER WITH IRAQ: A THREAT TO THE 50-YEAR PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TURKEY & THE U.S.A. &
TO AMERICA'S CREDIBILITY IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM
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Volume VI, Issue # 179, August 12, 2004
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
THE PKK FACTOR:
ANOTHER CRITICAL ENEMY FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR
By
Michael Rubin
TURKISH POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE, THE ISLAMIST THREAT, & THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF THE "POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS" OF U.S. NATIONAL LEADERS & DIPLOMATIC SPOKESMEN: UNDERMINING THE U.S.-TURKISH RELATIONSHIP &
STRENGTHENING THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT INSIDE TURKEY'S BORDERS
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Volume VI, Issue # 176, August 9, 2004
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKISH DEMOCRACY: MUSLIM OR SECULAR?
By
Michael Rubin
RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY & ISRAEL -- WEAKNESSES IN THE TURKISH-ISRAELI ENTENTE: POLITICAL ISLAM IN
TURKEY, TURKISH PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN ARABS, TURKEY'S RELATIONS WITH MANY OF ITS NEIGHBORS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST, POSSIBLE DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN TURKEY & ISRAEL OVER KURDISH ASPIRATIONS, & THE DESIRE OF
INFLUENTIAL SEGMENTS OF THE ISRAELI PUBLIC TO RECOGNIZE THE 1915 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AS A FACT
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Volume V, Issue # 288, November 29, 2003
DISCUSSION TOPIC:
TURKEY & ISRAEL:
THE TURKISH-ISRAELI ENTENTE &
THE POTENTIAL MINES IN ITS PATH
By
Gregory A. Burris
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