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Abstract: What explains the up/down, love/hate, and/or friendly/antagonistic relations between Turkey and the EU? I suggest that there is no single cause but multiple causes for the instability of EU-Turkish relations. Despite this difficulty, however, I argue that the most important reason for this volatility lies in how the EU and Turkey identify themselves and how much they differentiate their own identity from that of the “Other’s. In this sense, this paper 1) uncovers what different political insitutions with differing ideational/identity orientations in Turkey think about the EU and how they see Turkey’s relations with the Union; 2) offers a framework to better understand the volatility of the EU-Turkish relations especially in the last decade; 3) evaluates the debate between the pro-European and the pro-American discourses, the consequences of which will have direct effect on EU-Turkish relations.

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Abstract: Globalization forces national economies to transform their structure in a more competable manner.
National Tax system is one of the important factors of this transformation period. After the economic liberalization period of 1980’s, Turkish Tax System stil remains an area which has not been fully transformed for the new economic order. Especially, it seems to be necessary to satisfy the expectations which are created by incresead tax competitation and to establish a suitable tax structure for free movement of capital, goods, services and workers and to provide a sustainable tax enviroment within international tax competitetion. A new tax structure is needed which is paralel to globalization trends.
Last year, in 2006, a new Turkish Cooparate Income Tax law was prepared and acted by parliament. In 2007, nowadays, Turkish Income Tax Law is being prepared. The acting process in parlaiment is going on. This paper aims to evalute the rewrite process of tax law in aspect of globalization and to determine what should be done for integrating to global world.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The U.S.-Turkish alliance is one of Turkey’s longest standing alliances in the history of modern Turkey. During the 1991 Gulf War, Turkey suffered economic sacrifices in order to re-affirm its geo-strategic importance to the West in the absence of So

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Abstract: This article reports the results of three studies designed to investigate the presence and possible effects of issue specific news frames. The study focuses on the topic of potential membership of Turkey in the European Union. The frames conceptualized in this study are theoretically driven, are clearly delineated from other news frames, and are found in actual news media content providing external validity to the study of the effects of these frames. The news media framing of the issue was assessed through a content analysis of national newspapers and television news. Several frames in the political, economic and cultural realm were identified. These frames all carried an inherent valence that framed the issue in either positive or negative terms. A first experimental study showed significant differences in the level of support between respondents who had received a positive news frame and respondents who had received a negative news frame. The results of a second experimental study corroborated the first study, but demonstrated that negative news frames yield stronger effects than positive news frames and that exposure to news frames can affect public policy support even in a multivariate test controlling for other influences.

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Abstract: This project investigates twelve foreign policy cases under four Turkish coalition governments. As suggested in the literature, coalition government foreign policymaking is an understudied and undertheorized topic in the literature despite the wide-ranging existence of such governments in the world. This is not only surprising but also unfortunate for a variety of reasons. This project aims to a) briefly evaluate this literature; b) justify why the Turkish coalition governments provide a wonderful setting to test some of the hypotheses with regard to coalition foreign policymaking and should, thus, be seen as exemplary cases for those newly democratizing countries that have already had and/or are likely to have coalition governments in future and c) analytically examine coalition foreign policy under four Turkish coalition governments by using the 'structured-focused' comparison. The findings suggest that despite the commonly held belief that Turkish political parties do not have foreign policy goals and objectives, they do enter into coalition governments to affect policy. However, to what extent and under what conditions that influence would take place depends on various factors. This study argues that in addition to other variables (discussed in the paper), the nature of the coalition government and the identity of the coalition partners are crucially important in influencing foreign policy behaviour of a country. Similarly, the findings suggest that these two factors are important in explaining under what conditions a coalition government would behave like an institution made up of autonomous actors or act as if it was a single-party government. This study is not only a welcome contribution to the literature on Turkish foreign policy but also an important addition to the newly growing research program on coalition government foreign policymaking.