The Atlantic Alliance and Turkey's Neighborhood, Winter 2008

Nigâr Göksel | Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Download PDF in English

This Winter 2008/9 Issue of Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) arrives in your hands on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In summer of 2004, we were honored to include the perspective of NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in TPQ during the organization’s annual summit – which was held in Istanbul that year.

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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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FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR

Since the founding of the Turkish Republic, competing conceptions of Turkish identity have existed. Among many examples, the role of Islam has been contested, Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms have clashed, and various identity-based movements have ebbed and flowed, shaping political cleavages. National identity contestation has also spilled over into Turkey’s relationship with its Western...