THE COMPATIBILITY OF ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND SECULARISM
by Süleyman Demirel

The Turkish modernisation was built on two main pillars; secularism and republicanism. It began during the Ottoman Empire and can be traced back to the XVIIIth Century. The Ottomans have always been in close relations with the cultural entity which we call “Western Civilisation”.......

POSITIVE NEUTRALITY AS THE BASIS OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF TURKMENISTAN by Boris O. Shikhmuradov

Modern civilisation, standing at the boundary of the third millennium, enters the forthcoming era with great hopes. It is not accidental. The whole second half of the third millenium, especially the last century, was marked by the tensions of peoples' struggle for their independence and sovereignty......

A NOTE ON THE POPULATION OF CYPRUS by Halil Inalcik

The fact that Cyprus is an island caused drastic changes in its population over time. In the course of its history, especially in times of drought and locust invasions, famine broke out and caused large-scale migrations from the island to Anatolia and Syria, which resulted in sudden, considerable changes in the population and ethnic structure of the island.....

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND CO-OPERATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: NEW CHALLENGES FOR THE EU COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
by Adrián Mac Liman

The Mediterranean, crucible of races, crossroads of cultures and cradle of the three great monotheist religions, is also one of the most conflict-prone regions of our planet...

REMOVING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS
by Türkkaya Ataöv

The White House statement, 22 April 1997, on Armenian-Turkish relations during the First World War, apparently publicised on the occasion of what is portrayed as ‘Remembrance Day', needs comment and correction through academic probing....

THE GREEK AND OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION DURING THE TANZIMAT PERIOD by Ilber Ortayli

Even though the Greek revolt was not the first successful national revolt, it had a shock on the Ottomans. The Serbian revolt had paved the way for other Balkan peoples to revolt and had increased their hopes for national revival: but the Greek revolt directly accelerated the Balkan nationalist movements....

RUSSIA AND TURKEY: A CURE FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA by Dmitri Trenin

Russia's present relations with Turkey can be best described as schizophrenic. On the one hand, the Turks and the Russians have never had such amicable contacts—and on such an order of magnitude—as since the collapse of the Soviet Union....

AN ANALYSIS OF TURKISH - RUSSIAN RELATIONS by A. Suat Bilge

In my book entitled Turkey-Soviet Union Relations (1920-1964), published in Ankara in 1992, I termed Turco-Russian relations as “difficult neighbourhood”. Since then this attribute has not changed......

MACEDONIA: A VIEW ON THE INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS by Emilija Simoska

One of the processes by which the present decade shall undoubtedly be remembered is the ethnic conflicts or wars that took place, most of which originated in the countries experiencing the so called ‘period of transition'.....

CONTEMPORARY FORMS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST IMMIGRANTS byTekin Akillioglu

One thing is certain: the upsurge of racism, xenophobia and intolerance is increasingly apparent within societies which have the deepest democratic roots, in other words, European industrial societies which employ foreign workers....

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CHECHNYA AND RUSSIA SINCE THE ELECTION OF A. MASKHADOV by Cem Oguz

After the signing of the Khasavyurt Peace Accord in late August 1996, which postpones the formal definition of future relations between Russia and Chechnya for up to five years, there appeared three contentious issues between the two sides:...

THE STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN CENTRAL ASIA by Bülent Arici

As research into the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union has taken on momentum, various aspects of an encompassing approach tend to crystallise. When considered together, they yield a picture whose central theme is the degree to which these states really govern themselves....

BOOK REVIEW

"DEATH AND EXILE: THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF OTTOMAN MUSLIMS" by JUSTIN MCCARTHY, 1821-1922, Princeton NJ, The Darwin Press 1995

Sinan Kuneralp
In the 1860s, the conquering Russians forcibly banished the Muslim Circassians from their ancestral home in the Caucasus and shipped them to the Ottoman Black Sea ports where they died in great numbers of smallpox, typhus and scurvy.....

ACTIVIES OF THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC RESEARCH May 1996 - June 1997

Last year in June 1996 we invited Danish Ombudsman Hans Gammeltof-Hansen to visit Turkey. The Centre for Strategic Research (SAM) organised conferences for him in Ankara and Istanbul where he shared his knowledge and thoughts with MPs, academics, journalists and bureaucrats on the Ombudsman System, which we do not yet have in Turkey....