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Foreign Affairs - Turkey's Dreams of Accession - David L. Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Turkey's rejection by the EU could cause a domestic backlash against the West and embolden ultranationalists and religious extremists bent on derailing Turkey's liberalization, democratization, and demilitarization. Turkey has already made great strides to meet the Copenhagen criteria, and its leadership must be encouraged to continue these efforts in preparation for the next EU summit. Turkey's accession to the EU is an unprecedented chance both for the country to fulfill its potential as a successful modern democracy in the Muslim world and for the West to strengthen a precious ally in the fight against terrorism, deepen its commitment to diversity, and foster liberalization in the Islamic world. www.foreignaffairs.org /20040901faessay83508/david-l-phillips/turkey-s-dreams-of-accession.html?mode=print   (3622 words)

Felicity Party (Turkey) The Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi) is a Turkish political party of strongly Islamist views, often seen as the main voice of sensitive muslims in Turkey. The Felicity Party has not been particularly successful electorally, polling just 2.5% of the vote in the 3 November 2002 general elections, thereby failing to pass the 10% threshold necessary to gain representation in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The Felicity Party was founded by veteran politician Necmettin Erbakan, and its policy platform is based strongly around his ideas and philosophy. www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Felicity_Party_(Turkey)   (332 words)

AICGS: ANALYSES : It Truly is a Long and Winding Road: The Saga of EU-Turkey Relations Turkey's pivotal role as a mediator of civilizations, as the legatee of not just the Ottoman Empire but the myriad civilizations that rose and fell in Anatolia, is now receiving increased attention. Some would argue that without Turkey the EU will not be able to match its economic prowess with the political clout and the strategic depth that it needs in order to have both a more balanced relationship with the United States and to be taken seriously as a global actor. Turkey's economy, the size and poverty of its population, and the impact of these on EU budget and institutions, whether geographically Turkey belongs to Europe and the differences in culture/religion have been raised and debated ad infitum. www.aicgs.org /analysis/c/oezal_turkey.aspx   (4493 words)

BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkish elections: Key parties The CHP is a centre-left party founded by the father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in 1923. The DSP party of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was, until this summer, the biggest in the parliament, and the leader of the three-party coalition government. Turkey's economic crisis began with a public row between Mr Ecevit and President Ahmet Necdet Sezer in February 2001, after Mr Sezer said the government was too passive in the fight against corruption. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2165837.stm   (1199 words)

ISN Security Watch - Turkish 'Muslim democrats' to form government Ecevit, whose party lost more than half of its 128 parliamentarians during the crisis, was the only politician who opposed early elections, predicting they would result in a resounding defeat for most secular parties. Turkey applied for EU membership in 1987, but was granted candidate status only three years ago. Turkey opposes Cyprus's entry into the 15-member bloc until a peaceful solution to its dispute with EU member Greece over the island is found. www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=5242   (1490 words)

20,000 Turks protest at pope visit - CNN.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The Islamist Felicity party organizing the protest under the banner "against the crusader alliance" -- a reference to the crusaders who crossed Anatolia 1,000 years ago on their way to Jerusalem -- had expected an attendance of at least 75,000. Turkey's ruling AK Party government has kept a low profile in preparations for this visit, with talks still ongoing as to whether Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, a pious Muslim, will meet him before heading off to a NATO summit in Riga. Turkey plans tight security measures for the pope, whose trip takes in the capital Ankara, Istanbul -- formerly Constantinople -- and the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have lived and died near Izmir on the Aegean coast. edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/europe/11/26/pope.turkey.reut/index.html   (600 words)

Thousands in Turkey protest pope's visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is scheduled to attend a NATO meeting in Latvia during the papal visit, but could briefly greet the pontiff at the airport. "Turkey has always represented a different continent, in permanent contrast to Europe," he was quoted by the French magazine Le Figaro as saying. On Sunday, Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency quoted the Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, as saying that the Vatican was not against Turkish membership in the EU. seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/1107AP_Turkey_Pope_Protest.html   (824 words)

Religioscope - > Turkey: Islamic Party's Victory Likely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Turkey's Higher Election Board on 20 September barred Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the moderate Islamic Justice and Progress Party, or AKP, and a front-runner in the 3 November poll, from standing as a candidate. Turkey's leading business association, TUSIAD, and former Justice Minister Sami Hikmet Turk, among others, have criticized the ban imposed on the four politicians, saying it contradicts recent efforts to harmonize Turkey's legislation with EU democratic standards. Turkey's staunchest secularists, among them the military, have justified the successive bans imposed on Islamic parties over the past 30 years by the need to defend republican values. www.religioscope.com /articles/2002/017_turkey_elect.htm   (1788 words)

Felicity Party (Turkey) biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The Felicity Party is a Turkish political party of strongly Islamist views, often seen as the main voice of Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey. The Felicity Party seeks a through Islamicisation of Turkish society, and while it has not called for the declaration of an Islamic republic for legal reasons, few doubt that this is its long-term aim. The Felicity Party has found itself outflanked and outclassed by the successful moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party government, although it has launched sustained attacks of the government's desire to join the European Union, military ties with Israel and the United States, gradualism and general acceptance of Turkish state secularism. www.biography.ms /Felicity_Party_(Turkey).html   (291 words)

< a felicity page: episode 8 - family affair > When Felicity opts to stay in New York over the Thanksgiving holiday, her parents surprise her with an unexpected visit and get a few surprises of their own about her life at school, including her new hair cut, her new major and her new older boyfriend, David. Felicity apologizes to David and tells him she can't be in a serious relationship right now. Felicity's parents are happy to be in her life again, if only "for a moment". www.felicitypage.com /s2e8.html   (410 words)

Thousands in Turkey denounce papal visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The demonstration, organized by the pro-Islamic Felicity Party, was the largest anti-pope protest so far ahead of Benedict's arrival in Turkey on Tuesday. Nearby, a large banner was raised amid a sea of red flags of the Saadet, or Felicity, party. Officially, Turkey is a rigidly secular republic, though around 99 percent of its population is Muslim. seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/1103AP_Turkey_Pope_Protest.html   (939 words)

Political parties in Turkey - All About Turkey It was a minority party until it won 76 parliamentary seats in the December 1995 general elections. Erbakan fell apart under pressure of the military and the party was banned in January 1998 by the Constitutional Court. It governed Turkey from 1983 to 1991; formed a brief governmental coalition with the DYP in 1995 and then back to power from July 1997 to November 1998 with Mesut Yilmaz at its head. www.allaboutturkey.com /parti.htm   (1710 words)

Elections in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To participate in the distribution of seats, a party must obtain at least 10% of the votes cast at the national level as well as a percentage of votes in the contested district according to a complex formula. Turkey has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and often a third party that is electorally successful. The leftist parties, most notable of which is CHP, with a rapidly shrinking electorate, draw much of their support from big cities, coastal regions, professional middle-class, and minority groups such as Alevis and Kurds. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Turkey   (402 words)

Turkey Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. Turkey's dynamic economy is a complex mix of modern industry and commerce along with a traditional agriculture sector that still accounts for more than 35% of employment. www.indexmundi.com /turkey   (1581 words)

BBC News | EUROPE | Turkey Islamists shocked by party ban The Welfare Party had the largest number of seats in the Turkish parliament when it was shut down, and its leader, Necmettin Erbakan, was a former prime minister. The newly-formed Felicity Party of the traditionalists in the movement reacted strongly - as did the reformers, who are yet to establish their own party. The court said the Welfare Party ban could "reasonably be considered to meet a pressing social need for the protection of democratic society", as the party had declared its intention to introduce Islamic law. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1467665.stm   (561 words)

"Turkey's Justice and Development Party: A Model for Democratic Islam?" (June/July 2004) With a genealogy that clearly places it in the tradition of Turkey's Islamist political trend, the rise of the AKP was at first greeted with trepidation by the country's Kemalist military and political elite. When the Virtue Party was banned in 2001, Erbakan formed yet another reincarnation, the Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi), but this time the aging politician faced a revolt against his leadership by a modernist faction of younger Islamist activists, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdullah Gul. Turkey, a country of about 70 million Muslims, most of whom are religious, is ruled today by a conservative party with an Islamic pedigree and a humane, tolerant, and democratic track record. www.meib.org /articles/0407_t1.htm   (3202 words)

Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism All the parties preceding the Felicity Party were banned by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that they opposed secularism. The ultra-nationalist movement is composed of: the traditional Nationalist Action Party (Milliyetçi Hareket); leftists (such as the Workers Party − İşçi Partisi), who are anti-EU, anti-US and anti-globalization; and various small nationalist groups. Turkish-Israeli arms modernization projects; agricultural projects in southeast Turkey connected to GAP (the South-East Anatolia Agricultural Irrigation Project), which employ Israeli experts; mutual visits of Turkish and Israeli officials; and the alleged role of the Mossad in northern Iraq (for example, “The Mossad is the Boss in Northern Iraq”) have all nourished these theories. www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2004/turkey.htm   (1512 words)

Turkey braces for pope visit: Security teams take up positions, small protests break out - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Turkish security teams took up positions around the cities of Ankara and Istanbul on Monday, a day before Pope Benedict XVI begins his first visit to a predominantly Muslim country. In a speech on Sunday, Benedict said he was coming to Turkey as a friend of the Turks and asked his followers to pray for him. The visit to Turkey will be a test of whether this pope can soften some of the Christian-Muslim tensions that boiled over after Benedict quoted a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of Islam's prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman." www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2006-11-26-turkey-pope_x.htm?csp=34   (578 words)

My Way News - Thousands in Turkey Protest Pope's Visit ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Tens of thousands of protesters chanted "No to the pope!" and waved anti-Vatican banners Sunday in a defiant display of the pro-Islamic anger that could await the pontiff on his first papal trip to a mostly Muslim nation. Benedict later heads to Istanbul - the ancient Christian capital Constantinople - to be hosted by the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. The pope strongly backs efforts to close the nearly 1,000-year divide between the Vatican and the Orthodox churches. Seafetin Tuleg, 70, wrapped himself in the red flag of the Felicity Party which organized the demonstration. apnews.myway.com /article/20061126/D8LKRVN00.html   (813 words)

PC(USA) - News Service - In Turkey, Pope aims to improve relations with Islam, Orthodoxy Turkey is a secular nation of 72 million of whom 99 per cent are Muslims. Some 20,000 protesters rallied against the Pope’s trip in a demonstration said to have been organized by the Islamic Saadet (Felicity) party as Turkey was preparing for the pontiff’s visit. CNS reported that ultranationalist newspapers in Turkey have depicted the papal visit as an attempt to form a “strategic partnership” between the Vatican and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, as part of a Christian [Catholic-Orthodox] alliance against Islam. www.pcusa.org /pcnews/2006/06627.htm   (489 words)

Party Politics Vol. 9, Issue 4, p. 463   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The Islamist Welfare Party (WP) in Turkey recently changed its decades-old policy of hostility toward the European Union (EU) and began strongly to support Turkey's accession to the Union, thereby raising doubts about the inevitability of a civilizarional conflict between Islam and the West. When the VP was outlawed by the CC in June 2001, the VP elite founded two new parties, the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and the Felicity Party (FP). Despite their differences on a number of issues, the elites in both parties have similar views on the importance of democracy, basic human rights and freedoms, and on the role of the EU in the realization of these in Turkey. www.partypolitics.org /volume09/v09i4p463.htm   (279 words)

Antisemitism And Racism All the parties preceding the Felicity Party were closed by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that they opposed secularism. The Felicity Party survives because it is more careful to observe the country’s laws of secularity and because Turkey seeks to comply with EU regulations regarding political organization. Orhan Pamuk made statements implicating Turkey in massacres against Armenians and persecution of the Kurds, declaring: “Thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands.” He was labeled a traitor and condemned in many newspapers, especially in the ultra-nationalist Yeniçağ. www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2005/turkey.htm   (1966 words)

EUguides - Turkey - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance Turkey joined NATO in 1952; the Council of Europe in 1949; and became a full candidate for European Union membership in 1999. The 2004 December European Council agreed to open EU accession negotiations with Turkey on 3 October 2005, endorsing the European Commission's view that Turkey had sufficiently fulfilled the Copenhagen political criteria (the criteria against which a candidate's suitability to join the Union is judged). Turkey was the second country to sign a European association agreement as long ago as 1963. www.eubusiness.com /guides/turkey   (861 words)

(AP) Thousands in Turkey Protest Pope's Visit | WKRN.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is scheduled to attend a NATO meeting in Latvia during the papal visit, but could briefly greet the pontiff at the airport. Officially, Turkey is a rigidly secular republic, though around 99 percent of its population is Muslim. On Sunday, Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency quoted the Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, as saying that the Vatican was not against Turkish membership in the EU. www.wkrn.com /nashville/news/ap-thousands-in-turkey-protest-popes-visit/61781.htm   (799 words)

COSMOWORLDS | TURKEY - Country Information Turkey - Facts & Figures Turkey; History, People, Government, Economy, ... Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. Turkey's dynamic economy is a complex mix of modern industry and commerce along with a traditional agriculture sector that still accounts for more than 35% of employment. www.cosmoworlds.com /country_information/turkey.htm   (1434 words)

Benedict in the lion's den | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited He ensured an awkward reception in Turkey with a lecture at a German university on September 12 in which he quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor as saying the teachings of the prophet Muhammad were "evil and inhuman", particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached". Turkey is currently knocking at the door of the EU. Turkey's treatment of Catholics obviously concerns the Pope, who has voiced his own worries at the lack of religious freedom of Christians in predominantly Muslim countries. www.guardian.co.uk /turkey/story/0,,1956152,00.html   (814 words)

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