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The Turkish Constitutional Courts verdict annulling the Parliaments amendments to Articles 10 and 42 of the Constitution disregards popular will, legalizes arbitrary restrictions on the right to equal access to education, and erodes the separation of powers by permitting itself to act outside of the legal order. The emergence of a new precedent of judicial activism is now the biggest threat to the future of Turkish democracy. Turkey cannot afford an unaccountable judiciary exercising substantial powers of governance through judicialization of politics. The Parliament must reassert its authority and reconfigure the Courts competences and composition to bring it into line with liberal-democratic principles as part of a comprehensive constitutional reform

Ob Arabischer Frühling oder die Beziehungen mit den Nachbarländern: Die Türkei beteiligt sich aktiv an der Gestaltung der Region, sind doch die eigene Stabilität und Sicherheit betroffen. Ihre Erfahrungen mit der Demokratie und Reformprozessen können dabei in turbulenten Zeiten ein Vorbild für andere Länder der Region sein. (IP)

"Ob Arabischer Frühling oder die Beziehungen mit den Nachbarländern: Die Türkei beteiligt sich aktiv an der Gestaltung der Region, sind doch die eigene Stabilität und Sicherheit betroffen. Ihre Erfahrungen mit der Demokratie und Reformprozessen können dabei in turbulenten Zeiten ein Vorbild für andere Länder der Region sein." (Autorenreferat)

Turkey's foreign policy activism on a range of regional and global issues has sparked enormous interest in academic and policy circles in recent years. In a rather ambitious development, Turkey has undertaken steps towards closer social, economic, and political exchanges with its neighbours. The wave of popular uprisings that has swept through North Africa and the Middle East has also imbued Turkish foreign policy with a new dose of activism. While Turkey's policies in those specific issue areas have received close scholarly interest, what has been overlooked has been the conceptual framework that undergirds this new foreign policy vision. Adapted from the source document.

The multifaceted energy relations between Turkey and Russia offer a crucial case to study the changing priorities of Turkish foreign policy and the limits of this transformation. Turkey has adopted cooperative policies based on a positive-sum logic and downplayed competitive negative-sum calculations. Within this new approach to international relations, Turkey seeks to use interdependencies forged through economic exchanges as a tool to dampen political disputes and induce positive transformation in the behaviour of its partners. The transformation of Turkish-Russian relations from adversity to managed competition and the current phase of multidimensional partnership owes a great deal to the economic interdependence imparted most crucially by energy cooperation. Turkey's pursuit of a more independent approach vis-a-vis the west and its forging of closer economic and political relations with its northern neighbour Russia are a testament to the success of its new foreign policy vision, which also values cooperation with its immediate neighbours. As this article will argue, Russia's failure to deliver on Turkey's expectations in both energy and neighbourhood issues exposes the limitations of this new approach. The return to competitive dynamics after the parties reached a historic grand bargain in energy cooperation in 2009 clearly reveals the boundaries of Turkey's positive-sum approach to energy cooperation with Russia. Adapted from the source document.

The Turkish Constitutional Courts verdict annulling the Parliaments amendments to Articles 10 and 42 of the Constitution disregards popular will, legalizes arbitrary restrictions on the right to equal access to education, and erodes the separation of powers by permitting itself to act outside of the legal order. The emergence of a new precedent of judicial activism is now the biggest threat to the future of Turkish democracy. Turkey cannot afford an unaccountable judiciary exercising substantial powers of governance through judicialization of politics. The Parliament must reassert its authority and reconfigure the Courts competences and composition to bring it into line with liberal-democratic principles as part of a comprehensive constitutional reform ; Şaban Kardaş