Viewpoints Collide: Shifts in Turkey and Its Neighborhood, Fall 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010 | Download PDF in English

This issue of TPQ spans a broad range of topics concerning both Turkey’s domestic affairs and neighborhood dynamics. Diverse views are voiced on the course of change in a number of Turkey’s relationships that can be regarded to be “in flux” – Israel and Greece, Armenia and the United States. The respective capacity and influence of the U.S. and the EU in the regions of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Eurasia are analyzed, in conjunction with an effort to better understand Turkey’s comparative soft power in these regions.

CONTRIBUTOR

Nigâr Göksel

D. Nigar Goksel has been Editor-in-Chief of the Istanbul-based Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) since 2002 and Turkey and Cyprus Analyst for Crisis Group's Turkey/Cyprus Project since April 2015. She was Senior Analyst at the European Stability Initiative (ESI) between 2004-11, where she covered Turkey and the Caucasus. In Spring 2014, she joined FRIDE as associate fellow, focusing on the Black Sea region. She is a regular contributor to the German Marshall Fund’s ‘On Turkey’ series and writes frequently for Al Jazeera International. Nigar is also registered as an independent consultant for political analysis and project management. She has designed a range of reconciliation and civil society capacity-building initiatives in Turkey and the South Caucasus.

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