Turkey
Turkey-Armenia rapprochement: One step forward, two steps back
December 28, 2009By David J. Smith With considerable ado, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu met in Zurich October 10 to sign an agreement that would establish diplomatic relations and re-open the border between...
Moscow can be a strategic partner for both Azerbaijan and Armenia
December 07, 2009By Paul Goble Moscow Can Gain Azerbaijan as a Strategic Partner without Sacrificing Its Ties to Armenia, Baku Analyst Says One of the fundamental assumptions about Russia and the Southern Caucasus is no longer true in the wake of the August...
Turkish-Armenian détente: A plus for regional stability
October 14, 2009By Ian O. Lesser On Saturday, the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Armenia met in Zurich and signed accords aimed at establishing diplomatic relations and opening their closed border. They also agreed to a series of consultations and confidence-building...
Hillary Clinton Upbeat On Russia 'Reset' After Moscow Talks
October 13, 2009By Gregory Feifer Hillary Clinton has said she's pleased with the effects so far of Washington's rapprochement with Moscow during her first visit to the Russian capital as U.S. secretary of state. She said both sides had agreed to work more closely...
Re-Opening of Turkish Border: Transforming Armenian Mentality
October 09, 2009By Paul Goble The restoration of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey and the re-opening of the border between those two countries represents, in the words of one Russian commentator, “a test for the Armenian mentality” and an...
The Irish 'Yes' Brings Hope to Europe and to the Balkans
October 08, 2009By Ivan Vejvoda The European Union has accomplished a crucial step toward its further institutional consolidation by making the final steps to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. On October 2, 3 million Irish voters helped decide the future of Europe’s institutional...
What if the CIS holds a Summit, and no one comes?
October 07, 2009By Robert Coalson There is none of the extraordinary street-cleaning or painting of dingy facades going on in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, that one might expect as the city prepares to host a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS...
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China
August 31, 2009By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and...
Xinjiang crisis risks damaging Sino-Turkish relations
July 08, 2009By Emrullah Uslu The riots in Urumqi, the capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang region populated by ethnic Turkic Uighurs, have resulted in the deaths of at least 156 people, mostly Uighurs, and hundreds wounded to the shock of the Turkish public...
Michael Emerson: "Islam, Obama and Europe"
June 30, 2009By Michael Emerson President Obama’s speech in Cairo on June 4th was an outstanding example of public diplomacy in action at the highest strategic level. For some time even before his election, Europeans had become persuaded that this could...
