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Dr Ayla Gol Westminster Debate ‘Leaving the Mountains: How May PKK Lay Down Arms? Freeing the Kurdish Question from Violence’ Dr Ayla Göl is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics; she joined the department in 2005, having started…
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Westminster Debate ‘Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy and Turkey’s Inaugural Presidential Election’ Dr Natalie Martin is a former BBC journalist turned academic specialising in EU Turkey relations. She is a part time…
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2nd December 2014, House of Commons The Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) hosted a Westminster Debate with the support of Eric Ollerenshaw OBE Conservative MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood. The debate took place in the packed…
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The operations against Gulen associated media outlets have increased concerns of the utilisation of the rule of law by the Turkish government. Discussions have focused on the rule of law in Turkey; the undemocratic proliferation…
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The new domestic security bill, the rhetorical disputes between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People's Party (CHP) regarding the 'Alevi Opening' dominated the domestic agenda. President’s visit to…
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18 November 2014, Portcullis House Hosted by Fabian Hamilton Labour MP for Leeds North East, keynote speaker of this Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) and the Centre for Kurdish Progress Joint Forum was Mr Ertugrul Kurkcu Peoples'…
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Re-start of the Peace Process, labour regulations on workplace safety and plans to regulate Syrian refugees’ work permits, fight against the ‘parallel state’ as well as re-surge of the Dersim massacre discussions occupied Turkish…
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PM Davutoglu’s new Economic Transformation Program, the continued battle to reach miners underground, heightened calls for the continuation of the peace process with the Kurds, and the risks emerging from the Syrian conflict have…
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As high politics was busy with the transit of Kurdish Peshmerga from Iraq to Syria via Turkey, risks to workers’ lives have engulfed Turkey’s agenda. Information on informal labour in the agricultural sector, on the number of…
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