Redefinition of BRIC

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Der große alte Bruder vom Bosporus - Türkei - derStandard.at ? International

The big old brother from Bosphorus

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In recent years, Turkey has not only restored the bridges and mosques from the Ottoman era in the Balkans.
Turkish patrons invested in the educations sector of South East Europeans, in hospitals and water supply.
Now they controll the national Airlines of Bosnia and Serbia.
The biggest infrastructural projects of Turkey are highways in Serbia and Albania.

The economic commitment is the basis for the increasing diplomatic and political position of Turkey in the region.
The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu emphasizes that Turkey was part of the Balkan region itself.
Turkey does not want to be perceived as a leading nation, but Turkey "wants to shape the conditions in the region", says Davutoglu. And it does.
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The recipe is always the same: investment and respect.
The Turkish beer brewer Efes invested in Serbia, there are Turkish carpet factories in Bosnia.
In Albania, the mobile telephony business is firmly in Turkish hands. Turkey grants visa-free travel to Balkan states.
The Bosnian Muslims and the Albanians accept Turkey as a true protector.
The first Kosovo Embassy abroad was established in Ankara.
90 percent of consumer goods in Kosovo come from Turkey.
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Turkey Breathes New Life Into Serbia’s Ottoman Relics
Turkey Breathes New Life Into Serbia’s Ottoman Relics :: Balkan Insight


Serbia’s cash-strapped authorities, which can scarcely afford to rebuild monuments on their own, are more than pleased to find someone willing to contribute to restoring heritage.
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While some of the media criticize Turkey’s new foreign policy as “Neo-Ottoman”, and aggressive, few Serbs see Turkish intentions to restore Ottoman relics as a threat to their national identity.
“The Turkish Empire left Serbia almost two centuries ago. It’s long gone,” engineer Milos Zivkovic says. “Nowadays, they’re a country from which Serbia could benefit.”
After years of prejudice, Serbs increasingly accept that Turkish history is inextricably linked with their own.
“That [restoration of Ottoman relics] shouldn’t come as surprise - it’s their heritage as well,” Miodrag Nikolic, a 59-year-old economist from Belgrade, says.
“It’s quite normal that the Turks are showing interest. We should follow their example and pay greater attention as well.”

 

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Free Article for Non-Members | STRATFOR

In an October 2009 speech in Sarajevo — which raised eyebrows in neighboring Serbia and the West — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stated:
“For all these Muslim nationalities in these regions, Turkey is a safe haven … Anatolia belongs to you, our Bosnian brothers and sisters.
And be sure that Sarajevo is ours.”

The point is not for Turkey to expand influence in the Balkans for the sake of influence, or for economic or political domination.
Rather, Ankara wants to demonstrate that its influence is central to the region’s stability, and that without Turkey, there will be no permanent political settlement in the Western Balkans.
The U.S.-EU Butmir constitutional process, as the most prominent example thus far, failed largely because Turkey lobbied the United States to step away.
The message was clear to Europe: Not only does Turkey consider the Balkans its backyard (and therefore Ankara should never again be left out of negotiations), it also has the ability to influence Washington’s policy.
STRATFOR sources in the European Union and the Bosnia-Herzegovina government familiar with the negotiations have indicated that the Europeans were caught off guard and displeased by just how much influence Ankara has in the region.

 

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

“Like in the 16th century, which saw the rise of the Ottoman Balkans as the center of world politics, we will make the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East, together with Turkey, the center of world politics in the future.
This is the objective of Turkish foreign policy, and we will achieve this.
We will reintegrate the Balkan region, the Middle East and the Caucasus, based on the principle of regional and global peace, for the future, not only for all of us but for all of humanity.”

European Stability Initiative - ESI

 

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Turkish Soap Operas Take Balkans by Storm
Professor of media at the University of Athens (Prof. George Pleios):

“As a result of Turkey’s leading position in the region, this dichotomy is what leads to the Greek public watching Turkish soap operas to replace the loss of Greek identity in the international arena”

Turkish Soap Operas Take Balkans by Storm


Turkish Soap Operas Emerge as Geopolitical Instrument
Turkish soap operas have conquered the Balkans (...) is also helping out the Turkish diplomacy (...)
From Durankulak on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast to Patras in western Greece, of Van in southeastern Turkey to Pristina in Kosovo the households are occupied with the Turkish TV series every night (...)

Bulgaria: Turkish Soap Operas Emerge as Geopolitical Instrument - Sofia News Agency

 

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Through the small screen, Turkey has begun to exercise a big influence at Arab dinner tables, in boardrooms and bedrooms from Morocco to Iraq of a sort that the United States can only dream about.
Turkey’s cultural exports, not coincidentally, have also advanced its political ambitions as it asserts itself on that front, too
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Or as Sina Kologlu, the television critic for Milliyet, a Turkish daily, phrased it the other day:
“U.S. cultural imperialism is finished. Years ago we took reruns of ‘Dallas’ and ‘The Young and the Restless.’ Now Turkish screenwriters have learned to adapt these shows to local themes with Muslim storylines, Turkish production values have improved, and Asians and Eastern Europeans are buying Turkish series, not American or Brazilian or Mexican ones. They get the same cheating and the children out of wedlock and the incestuous affairs but with a Turkish sauce on top.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/arts/18abroad.html

 

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CNN-Video:
Turkish dramas seduce Arab world
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com


Arab world is transfixed by Turkish soap operas

 

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http://rieas.gr/images/mavro1.pdf
Research Institute for European and American Studies


Currently for the first time since the collapse of the House of Osman, the Turkish navy has acquired a naval base at the Albanian Base of (Pasa Limani) in Avlona. [16]
Albanian Naval ports were the first areas that were rushed to be "cashed-out" by Ankara’s friendly relationship with Tirana, thus ensuring safe mooring and presence of the Turkish Navy in privileged locations like the northern Mediterranean seafaring routes of the strategic Straits of Otranto - a location that happens to be equally and extremely important to Greek and Italian interests and defense matters.
Ankara is setting the tone for its own Mare Nostrum dreams in the Mediterranean Sea. Greece is encircled once more since its early conception as a modern state from the Osmanli realm in the 1830s.

 

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FWIW, this week I'll be adding a book translated into ARMENAIAN to CBO: Rosetta Project's content.

This work is coming from a volunteer translator attending a University in Turkey.

The USA ought to maintain its close relations with Turkey.

AFter all, it is one of the only nations on earth with a mostly Moslem population that has a secular society.

It is the MODEL of an Islamic nation that the USA hopes will be duplicated in Iran, Iraq and so forth.

 

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FWIW, this week I'll be adding a book translated into ARMENAIAN to CBO: Rosetta Project's content.

This work is coming from a volunteer translator attending a University in Turkey.

The USA ought to maintain its close relations with Turkey.

AFter all, it is one of the only nations on earth with a mostly Moslem population that has a secular society.

It is the MODEL of an Islamic nation that the USA hopes will be duplicated in Iran, Iraq and so forth.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI&feature=fvw[/ame]
^Soon to be Turkey's Islamic society.
Yes....

 

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Preliminary data from World Bank suggest, that Turkey has grown 8.1 percent in 2010.
?Turkey to grow twice world economic growth in 2010?

5 % annual growth, we are leaving Canada behind in 2014, Spain in 2015.
7% annual growth to leave Canada+Spain behind in 2013, Italy in 2017.

Turkey needs to grow at least 7 pct annually to achieve its goals in economy

 

[Ropey]

FWIW, this week I'll be adding a book translated into ARMENAIAN to CBO: Rosetta Project's content.

This work is coming from a volunteer translator attending a University in Turkey.

The USA ought to maintain its close relations with Turkey.

AFter all, it is one of the only nations on earth with a mostly Moslem population that has a secular society.

It is the MODEL of an Islamic nation that the USA hopes will be duplicated in Iran, Iraq and so forth.

^Soon to be Turkey's Islamic society.
Yes....

Model of doo doo is still looking like doo doo.