“Make Way, the Youngsters are Coming” is a book recently published by Fatoş Karahasan from Bilgi University, based on the findings of a survey conducted through 45-minute-long interviews with 2,000 youngsters in 15 provinces across Turkey. The book’s conclusions are drawn by synthesizing those findings with several other local and international surveys.
Attending the inauguration ceremony of Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) on Jan. 12, the president of Turkish Cyprus drew attention to tension about energy resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. “What is rational is to benefit from these natural resources with common wisdom. It our greatest hope for TANAP to inspire everyone,” said Mustafa Akıncı.
When the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline project to transport Azerbaijani oil to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan came onto the agenda following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, I recall Russian diplomats telling me that the project would never be realized as they claimed it was not economically feasible. Similarly, when Moscow proposed to build the “blue stream” to deliver Russian gas directly via a pipeline underneath the Black Sea, I recall U.S. diplomats labeling it the “blue dream,” saying it would never be realized as there was no such technology suitable for the Black Sea’s deep waters.
“Turkey is first and foremost an Islamic country.” That was the answer of 56.3 percent of participants of a recent survey commissioned by Istanbul’s Kadir Has University, the fifth survey of the university’s Center for Turkish Studies on public perception on foreign policy.
“I’ll wake up at 6 a.m. to take the early morning plane to Istanbul to cast my vote at the Fenerbahçe congress,” the owner of a restaurant in the Aegean town of Ayvalık told me on the night of June 2.
It will be interesting to watch the fate of Israeli-Turkish relations after the elections, as they could take a number of courses depending on the results.
There are always discrepancies between campaign promises and the policies that are implemented after elections.
Compared to the past, Turkey did not take sides in the Iraqi general elections held this month, according to Bilgay Duman from Ankara-based Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM).
Thousands of members of the Turkish diaspora living in European countries like Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium flocked to Sarajevo on May 20 to attend an election rally held by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of next month’s polls in Turkey.
