The EU membership issue seems to be no longer on Turkey’s political agenda, as both Turkey and the European Union have going through difficult times recently. Turkey’s attention has been over the last months fixated on the Middle Eastern related developments. The possible disintegration of Turkey’s neighbors to the south, namely Syria and Iraq, and the negative

It is safe to say that the revolutions in the Arab world—now informally grouped and coined at the grand categorical level as the ‘Arab Spring’—caught many statesmen as well as other political pundits off guard. But then again, most revolutions in history did not differ much in this regard, for true revolutions—those that dramatically and inexorably challenge and shake