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US' Military Operation in Syria and International Law
Sedat LAÇİNER and Ceren MUTUŞ

US air forces launched a military assault on Syrian territory that killed eight people on October 26. According to the statements of Syrian officials and witnesses, four US helicopters penetrated eights kilometers into the Syrian territory and targeted a building in the village of al-Sukkariya in the Albu Kamal area near the border with Iraq.

Will PKK Survive?
İhsan BAL

The recently rising terrorist attacks of PKK have reached their peak with martyr of the 17 soldiers in Aktütün on 3 October 2008 and 6 security personnel in Diyarbakır on 8 October 2008. After these two attacks, Turkey has locked its agenda to terrorism while focusing on the questions of what the PKK terrorism is aiming to do, what are the reasons lying beneath the attacks and how to conduct an effective struggle against the terrorist organization.

The US, Economic Crisis and Politics
Hasan Selim Özertem

It has been more than a month that the conflict in Georgia broke out and since then the diplomacy has gained impetus in the region. Even though different reactions have been shown against Russia it has become clear that there is a dispersion of hegemonic power of the US in the world politics.

"Why did you open the door in the first place?"
İrem GÜNEY

Recently, Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan accused the EU of prolonging the accession talks on purpose, by opening two chapters during each term presidency[1]. The same idea was also expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Babacan. I cannot think of a better summary of recent EU-Turkey relations than Erdoğan’s words.

Drug Smuggling As Main Source of PKK Terrorism
Sedat LACINER, PhD
slaciner@gmail.com
Some claim that Turkey is one of the transit countries of the drug trafficking, not a consumer; so the fight against narcotic should not be involved with in the priority struggels of Turkey. Even, within some conversations, it is

The Changing Nature of Turkey’s Trade Structure: An Overview
By Mustafa KUTLAY
mustafakutlay@gmail.com
At the end of last month, Turkey’s 2007 trade statistics have been published. According to the statistics, Turkey has achieved significant success and increased its trade

Where to Go with the Lisbon Treaty?
Mehmet OZCAN, PhD
mozcan@usak.org.tr
European Union Leaders signed a new treaty on the 13th of December in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. This Reform Treaty, or known as Lisbon Treaty, forms the last circle of EU's periodic revision policy. With this treaty, EU Constitution, signed in Rome in 2004, mostly

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  RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Turkish Public Administration
NAIM KAPUCU & HAMIT PALABIYIK
The Scope of this study comprises of basic properties of the Turkish public administration system as well as recent legal regulations undertaken in this field. main goal of the work is to present Turkish public administration system to a wide range of readers both at home and abroad. Therefore, based on the necessary and practitioners, this work is prepared as a handbook to present language. We consciously tried to include theoretical approaches in general public administration and Turkish public administration literature and contemprorary academic debates. In short, we attempted to answer the question: "How is public administration in Turkey?" by presenting extensively the "extant" properties of the system in policy and practical terms.

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  NEWS
USAK Experts Fatma YILMAZ & Dr. Mehmet ÖZCAN
A Conference by USAK Experts on Cyprus Issue
Journal of Turkish Weekly, 30.10.2008 13:07:06
Eastern Mediterranean University hosted a conference titled “the Cyprus Problem” on October 22, 2008. European Union experts Associate Professor Mehmet Özcan and Fatma Yılmaz from International Research Center Organization (USAK) attended the conference as speakers.

07.11.2008 12:29:00
USAK Experts in the Embassy Of Ethiopia
Africa has become an important issue of Turkish foreign policy especially after the initiation of “The Policy of Opening up to Africa” by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the late 1990s. The end-products of this initiation have begun to exhibit themselves in the ever-improving economic, political, and cultural relations between Turkey and the African countries...
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30.10.2008 12:20:15
US Cuts Key Interest Rate to Stave Off Economic Downturn
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, on Wednesday cut short-term interest rates in an effort to boost the slowing economy. VOA's Barry Wood reports it was the eighth cut in the overnight federal funds rate in the past year.
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  REPORTS
From Crisis To Recovery: Quo Vadis Turkish Economy?
USAK Settled Foreigners Report
USAK Georgia-Russia Crisis Analysis Report
Russia's Recognition of South Osetia and Abkhazia
USAK Report on Cyprus Issue

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  ANNOUNCEMENTS
A Seminar on Security Issues in the Ferghana Valley
USAK Experts in the Embassy Of Ethiopia
A Conference by USAK Experts on Cyprus Issue

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  SURVEYS
ISRO EU Perception Survey - 3(6 November 2006)
ISRO Terrorism Perception Survey (9 August 2005)
ISRO EU Perception Survey (28 June 2005)

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 Serpil AÇIKALIN
Serpil AÇIKALIN is researcher on the Middle East at the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK).
 Mustafa KUTLAY
Mustafa Kutlay is research assistant in the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), works on the European Political Economy with particular reference to Social Policy in Europe.
 Dilek AYDEMİR
Dilek Aydemir is a researcher in the field of sociology at the USAK Center for Social Studies, Ankara.
 Güner ÖZKAN
Assist Prof. Dr. Güner Özkan, an academic, is a specialist on a International Relations, with particular reference to security and foreign policy. He is working as an expert on security issues in the Caucasus and Caspian regions at the USAK / ISRO (International Strategic Research Organization), Ankara-based Turkish think tank.
 Muzaffer VATANSEVER
Muzaffer Vatansever is a Turkish research-assistant studying on International Political Economy (IPE) with particular reference to globalization within the context of new IPE theories. She is currently a researcher in the International Strategic Research Organization, USAK.
 
 
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