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Turkey's decision to enter the Korean War in the early 1950s was a major event in the republic's history. As the country became a NATO member after the war, most scholars see this event as the beginning of a new era in Turkish foreign policy. This article argues that the Korean War has also been important in shaping the long?term image of East Asian cultures and peoples in Turkish collective memory. The article's main focus is on the Sino?Turkish military encounter and the representation of China and the Chinese in the Turkish war memoirs, journals, and other narratives. This study also aims to discuss the critical role of these narratives in constructing a negative image for China while they created a favorable cultural stereotype for Koreans and Japanese.
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2006.
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Banks depending on their ownership type may demonstrate different responses to the changing operational environment. The Turkish financial system has undergone significant legal, structural and operational changes as a result of financial liberalization launched in the early 1980s. This paper investigates the sources of initial productivity changes in public, private and foreign banks as financial repression is phased out of the Turkish financial system. According to the non?parametric Malmquist indexes, the results show that publicly owned banks realized the slowest productivity growth and foreign banks experienced the fastest after liberalization. Most of the productivity growth at public banks has come from changing scale, while private (domestic or foreign) banks have seen more productivity growth from increasing technical efficiency. Apparently, the productivity growth observed in Turkish banks during the liberal period mostly results from banks coming closer to the existing technological frontier (increased efficiency). However, the progress of the technological frontier during the period, representing the most efficient deployment of resources possible, was not as impressive. This implies that the source of productivity growth in Turkish banks is mainly "imitation"-the efforts of the inefficient banks to catch up with the best?practice banks-rather than "innovation"-the outward shifts of the production frontier by leading banks.
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073968
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2006.
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This paper analyzes the impact that the EU accession process has had on Turkey's foreign policy since the acceptance of its "candidacy" for EU membership in 1999. It also attempts to highlight the potential challenges for eventual membership that lie ahead, while commenting on the problems Turkey may face in its future negotiations with the EU-with particular emphasis on the areas in which Turkish foreign policy may need "further" adaptation. The article first analyzes the effects of candidacy for EU membership on Turkey's foreign policy between 1999 and 2005. It then goes on to examine the potential for problems relating to Cyprus and the Aegean, as well as other issues, such as the so?called Armenian Genocide and the creation of an independent Kurdish state in today's Northern Iraq. The third section includes remarks regarding the future, based on the uncertainties described in the previous sections.
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073965
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2006.
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This article examines the increasing and intensified cooperation between Russia and Turkey as a central feature of Central Eurasia's post?Cold War restructuring, and seeks to explain their cooperation with reference to major theories of international relations. It argues that the diminution of the Russian threat is what allowed for the possibility of Turkish-Russian cooperation.
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