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Decoding Erdoğan’s Visit to Washington May 18, 2013
Pakistan’s Turbulent Elections Present an Opportunity May 15, 2013
Microfinance and Entrepreneurship Among Minority Communities May 15, 2013
Setting the New U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Agenda May 14, 2013
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Global Connectivity Skills and Resources for Local Leaders May 21, 2013 / Washington DCGMF’s Transatlantic Leadership Initiatives team, in collaboration with the Urban and Regional Policy Program, hosted an event with special guest Reta Jo Lewis from the U.S. State Department.
Dimitris Kourkoulas, deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Greece, discusses the importance of Greece staying in the euro and which of the country's key sectors will stimulate growth to ensure Greece remains competitive.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Publications Archive
Democracy, Islam, and the AKP July 01, 2011 / Soli Ozel
Paradoxically, secularization and Islamization go hand in hand in Turkey. The AKP that emerged from Turkey’s Islamist movement is the agent of an ascending entrepreneurial class, which has prospered phenomenally in the course of the past eight years and benefited from patronage and rent distribution. Meanwhile, the losers of the global integration process were taken care of with a series of populist (and popular) measures. Is today’s picture in Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy a function solely of the AKP governments? Over the course of the last two centuries, Turkey made the historical choices to become a capitalist, secular, and democratic country with a Muslim population. The AKP must be seen and evaluated as a product of Turkish economic and political history, as must its foreign policy.
