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Semih Vaner

Semih Vaner is the Research Director of the Center of International Studies and Research of Paris and he is also the director of the Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien (CEMOTI).

10 articles

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“Turkey: bad excuses”

by Semih Vaner

11 November 2005

In a letter addressed to the President of the French Republic, 49 UMP deputies expressed their “aversion” to the Turkish inclusion. The word used says much more about us than about the targeted ones. The long history of relations between Turkey and the European Union can not be reduced to (…)

“Cyprus should not be an excuse”

by Semih Vaner

9 September 2005

The Cypriot dispute, along with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is the other wound in the Eastern Mediterranean. The problem has gotten everybody’s attention due to the next opening of negotiations about the inclusion of Turkey in the European Union on October 3rd. Ankara has just signed, (…)

"What do the attacks in Andijan hide?"

by Semih Vaner

16 May 2005

A violent uprising left several dozens of people dead on Friday in Andijan, an important city of eastern Uzbekistan to where President Islam Karimov urgently traveled and where the army fired their weapons against the crowd. These riots took place after three suicide attacks against the US and (…)