May 19, 2009
By Mehmet Kalyoncu* Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy recently published yet another controversial piece in Newsweek magazine that appears to be seriously distorting the reality regarding the ongoing “Ergenekon” court case in Turkey and targeting the faith-based civil society movement inspired by Fethullah Gülen by alleging that it is controlling [...]
March 21, 2009
By Oxford Business Group* Turkey has high hopes of becoming a major transit hub for land and sea cargo freighting, linking Central Asia and the Middle East with Europe, though it will need to invest heavily in infrastructure if its hopes are to be fulfilled. Turkey already has an extensive transport grid, with some 11,000km [...]
March 6, 2009
Editor’s note: this special report comes to us from Dr. Jonathan Harris of Royal Holloway, University of London. It recounts the proceedings of an absorbing workshop recently held at London’s Hellenic Centre, which brought members of the general public into contact with some of the world’s leading experts on Byzantium- this time, in the unique [...]
February 19, 2009
By Oxford Business Group* Although an upturn is expected in 2010, the correlated real estate and construction sectors have been scaling back as the global economic crisis takes effect, with predictions of a lean year. Both the real estate and construction industries have experienced high levels of growth over the past few years, driven by [...]
October 21, 2008
By Oxford Business Group* The outlook is mixed for Turkey’s aviation industry, with the country’s national flag carrier planning a massive expansion programme while some smaller lines are looking to cut routes and costs as the Turkish economy slows. On October 14, national carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) announced it had asked leading manufacturers Airbus and [...]
June 22, 2008
By Ioannis Michaletos and Christopher Deliso A number of high-impact incidents over the past few months have revealed that the historic feuding of Turkey and Greece is not a thing of the past. Some of these have been well-known, and overtly demonstrated in political events. Others have however received little mention, leaving the public curious [...]
June 16, 2008
By Mehmet Kalyoncu* Turkey is a country where there is seemingly no end to oddities. As the majority of Turks (and foreign observers of Turkey) ponder how it is possible to shut down a ruling political party that has been more pro-European, reformist and economically successful than any other party in the history of the [...]
May 19, 2008
By Ioannis Michaletos Greece and Turkey are historically known as traditional foes that accumulate vast military arsenals, preserving a delicate balance of power that breaks out occasionally with €šÃ„òhot’s incidents, inevitably involving the air force and the navy in the Eastern Aegean. Over the recent period, Greece has proceeded in acquiring new weaponry from international [...]
April 10, 2008
By Oxford Business Group* The proposed ‘Union for the Mediterranean’, which aims to strengthen ties between the EU and Mediterranean countries in a number of key areas such as energy and security, was approved by EU delegates on March 14 after a two-day summit in Brussels. The suspicion remains, however, that the union may represent [...]
February 20, 2008
Balkanalysis.com would like to announce that nine months’ worth of archived articles, many previously unavailable on the website, have now been uploaded to our page at the Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL.com). The articles in question number more than 50, and cover the months March-December 2006. They will be of interest to researchers [...]
