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Nov 2023
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Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties t...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Cihan Dizdaroğlu, associate professor in the political science and international relations department at Baskent University and associate fellow at the Istanbul Policy Institute, on “Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework” (Edinburgh University Press). The book looks at how ties between Athens and Ankara have gone through var ... Show More
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