Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

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A sea of opportunities: Exploring cooperation between Turkey and the West in the Black Sea

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In the political sphere, the interests of Turkey and the West in the Black Sea largely overlap.

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Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

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Turkey wants to end the war in Ukraine—and might have a formula to do it

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Turkey would play a role in a cease-fire and post-war arrangement, drawing on a history of balance and deterrence in the Black Sea region.

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Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

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Turkey’s emerging and disruptive technologies capacity and NATO: Defense policy, prospects, and limitations

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Can Kasapoğlu and Sine Özkaraşahin

An issue brief exploring Turkey’s defense technological ecosystem and leveraging its capabilities for the benefit of NATO.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, May 13, 2015

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May 15, 2015

Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

By Jorge Benitez

NATO foreign ministers concluded their meeting in Antalya, Turkey on May 14. This gathering was the first time since Berlin in 2011 that NATO foreign ministers met in a city other than Brussels.

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MENASource

May 15, 2015

Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

By Jorge Benitez

NATO foreign ministers concluded their meeting in Antalya, Turkey on May 14. This gathering was the first time since Berlin in 2011 that NATO foreign ministers met in a city other than Brussels.

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May 15, 2015

Turkey May Acknowledge the Past, But Not Yet

By Piotr Zalewski

Only a decade earlier, it would have been an unimaginable sight. On April 24, more than a thousand people crowded Istanbul’s biggest pedestrian street to hold a vigil commemorating the centenary of the 1915 massacres of 600,000 to 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians.

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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, May 13, 2015

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May 14, 2015

Turkey Will Lead NATO Spearhead Force in 2021

By Sevil Erkuş, Hurriyet Daily News

NATO has welcomed Turkey’s offer to assume the responsibility of forming a spearhead unit as part of the alliance’s high readiness force in 2021.

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MENASource

May 13, 2015

Turkey’s Role in a Shifting Syria

By Aaron Stein

In recent weeks, a Turkish backed umbrella group dubbed Jaysh al-Fateh has taken control of Idlib, prompting speculation that the group’s recent advance could mark a turning point in the war.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Oct. 9, 2014

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May 13, 2015

Turkey Condemns Russia’s Actions in Ukraine and Georgia

By AFP

Turkey on Tuesday said nothing can justify Russia’s actions in Ukraine and other ex-Soviet states, in a rare strong criticism of its increasingly close ally ahead of a NATO meeting.

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, May. 11, 2015

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May 11, 2015

Foreign Ministers to Address Growing Turmoil Along NATO’s Borders

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

We will keep NATO strong and we will help keep our neighborhood stable. Because if our neighborhood is stable we will be more secure.

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In the News

May 11, 2015

Ricciardone on Turkish Dialogue with NATO States

By Francis Ricciardone

The Financial Times quotes Vice President and Rafik Hariri Center Director Francis Ricciardone on Turkey’s relations with NATO as the country prepares to host NATO guests:

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May 8, 2015

Strengthening and Defending Ukraine

By Blake Franko

How reforming an arms industry can save a country Ukraine currently finds itself struggling against separatists in the East, but the solution to this problem might not rest in foreign aid and weapons. The Ukrainian military industrial complex has been a significant player in the country’s economy and can help to supply Kiev’s own defensive […]

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Apr 23, 2015

Slavin: White House Omits ‘G-word’

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al Monitor on the history and politics behind President Obama’s decision to not use the word “genocide” to describe what happened between Turkey and Armenians one hundred years ago:

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