CENTRE for TURKEY STUDIES - CEFTUS

20 November 2018 Houses of Parliament In this public forum, the Centre for Turkey Studies invited Yasemin Inceoglu to speak on the media coverage of hate speech in Turkey. The event was kindly hosted and chaired by Dan Carden, MP for…
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15 November 2018 A dispute involving Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs has highlighted the government’s difficulty in balancing the country’s religious and nationalist currents The head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious…
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08 November 2018 Turkey is unwilling to downgrade ties with Iran even as it seeks to rebuild its relationship with the US Turkey has successfully lobbied to be included among the countries granted a 180-day exemption from US…
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1 November 2018 Unite the Union Book Launch with Halil Karaveli 'Why Turkey is Authoritarian: From Ataturk to Erdogan' The Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS)  hosted the talk by Mr Halil Karaveli at Unite the Union on his new…
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01 November 2018 Amid the focus on the Khashoggi controversy, the Turkish government’s ruling alliance is weakening A recent court decision to overturn the removal of Turkey’s secular-nationalist oath from schools shows the limits…
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25 October 2018 Turkey is using the Khashoggi case to reset relations with the US Turkey’s careful release of information has allowed time for US-Saudi-Turkey negotiations In the short term, Turkey is looking to stall impending…
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"The Prime Minister values the efforts of CEFTUS in strengthening relations between the UK and Turkey, as well as your activity as Secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Turks and Kurds. Turkey is a key ally, and our…
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On Monday 15th October 2018, the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) hosted its 7th Anniversary Gala with over 500 guests at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel. Commemorating the founding of CEFTUS 7 years ago, the event celebrated the…
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18 October 2018 Turkey is taking an increasingly assertive stance against what it regards as its exclusion from agreements over the region’s energy resources The issue of gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean continues to be a…
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11 October 2018 The Khashoggi case has brought to the fore questions of Turkey’s regional leadership Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Riyadh, has been missing for over a week after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul…
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