Turkey

Research and activites

DIIS Report

2024

Pushback: the limits of power in Erdogan's Turkey
Photo/illustration by Morten L. Kringelbach

Weaving narratives: Autoethnographic migration research in the making

DIIS Auditorium

Autoetnography is emerging as a trend in current research. Come and reflect on the different ways to use personal experience and positionality with four migration scholars
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DIIS Report

2020

The Outlook for Turkey-NATO relations

Likely to remain on track, but also likely to face further troubles ahead.
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Report

2018

The Middle East shows signs of more independent security dynamics

writes Helle Malmvig in a new report for al Jazeera Centre for Studies
DIIS Longread

2018

Turkey’s security pivot towards Russia runs deeper than we think

but reflects a new approach to Turkish security manoeuvering
DIIS Policy Brief

2017

Refugees in Turkey struggle as border walls grow higher

The EU-Turkey deal on migration
DIIS Policy Brief

2017

Turkey's rapprochement with Iran

Challenges and opportunities for Europe
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Web Article

2017

The US balancing act on Turkey is becoming increasingly untenable

Historic alignments are gone, bi-lateral relations are strained, and Turkish anti-Americanism is salient
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Paper

2017

Threat perceptions and security interests in the Turkey-EU relationship

There is increasingly more that separates than unites us
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Project

30 June 2017

The Future of EU-Turkey Relations

Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios
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Report

2017

Denmark is becoming more pragmatic in its relations with Turkey

Ambivalence and pragmatism characterises the Danish attitude
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Lecture

21 February 2017

The New Turkey

Lecture at Aarhus University on Turkey since July 15
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Book Chapter

2016

What is it about the Armenian genocide that makes it still relevant?

And why does Turkey not recognise it?
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Book Chapter

2016

The Beginning of a 'beautiful' Danish-Turkish Relationship

Cecilie Banke on Denmark’s more pragmatic relationship with Turkey
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Brief

2015

Turkey’s expanding aid role

Paper suggests further engagement with Turkey as a development actor
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Conference

3 December 2015

What do we know about teaching the Holocaust?

International Research Conference on key challenges and opportunities
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Workshop

17 November 2015

Adversaries, Neighbors, Kins?

MICS-workshop on Turkey's foreign policy and the Eurasien Region, 19-20 November
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3 September 2015

Call for papers: Adversaries, Neighbors, Kins? Tensions and Security Potentials in Turkey and the Eurasian Region
DIIS Policy Brief

2014

A Difficult Balancing Act: Backing the Kurds in the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria

The Kurdish forces provide boots on the ground in the framework of Operation Inherent Resolve. But the strong backing of the Kurds presents a number of challenges and difficult balancing acts for Western and regional actors.
Conference report

2014

How can a regional accord help end the war in Syria?

Conclusions from the joint conference by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affair ECFR, DIIS
DIIS Report

2012

Sanctioning Assad's Syria

Mapping the repercussions of the international santions
Book

2011

Explaining Europe's threat perception in Turkey

Explaining Europe's threat perception in Turkey
Book

2009

New Book: Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors

An analysis of the relations between the EU and its neighbors
DIIS Policy Brief

2008

EU 27, Croatia and Turkey are watching: With or without the Lisbon Treaty

A summary of the Danish contribution to the EU 27 Watch no. 7, 2008
Book

2008

Religion, Politics, and Turkey's EU Accession

New book editied by Dietrich Jung and Catharina Raudvere

DIIS Report

2024

Pushback

The limits of power in Erdogan's Turkey

Jakob Lindgaard

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DIIS Report

2020

Turkey's NATO future

Between alliance dependency, Russia, and strategic autonomy

Jakob Lindgaard, Moritz Pieper & Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke

Download (pdf, 5.9 MB)
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Report

2018

Does the Middle East still play to the Tunes of Global Powers?

Al Jazeera Studies Centre report in new series with John Hopkins University, Washington. (New Balance of Power in the Middle East: Regional Actors, Global Powers, and Middle East Strategy)

Helle Malmvig

Read publication (external link)
Working papers etc.

2018

Turkey in European Identity Politics

Key Drivers and Future Scenarios

Jakob Lindgaard, Ayca Uygur Wessel & Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke

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Book Chapter

2017

It is Too Dangerous to be an Individual in Turkey

Jakob Lindgaard

In the Aftermath of Gezi. Springer

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Paper

2017

The Evolution of the EU's and Turkey's Security Interests, Threat Perceptions and Discourse

Jakob Lindgaard, Pol Morillas & Soli Özel

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Report

2017

FEUTURE Country Report Denmark

The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios

Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke & Jakob Lindgaard

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Book Chapter

2016

Global Memory and Dialogic Forgetting

The Armenian Case

Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke

Disputed Memories . De Gruyter

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Book Chapter

2016

Danish-Turkish Relations During the AKP-government

From Value Clash to Pragmatism

Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke

Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2016. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies

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DIIS Report

2012

Sanctioning Assad's Syria

Mapping the economic, socioeconomic and political repercussions of the international sanctions imposed on Syria since March 2011

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Book

2011

Avrupa komsularindan neden korkuyor?

Fabrizio Tassinari
Book

2009

Why Europe fears its neighbors

Fabrizio Tassinari
Book

2008

Religion, politics, and Turkey's EU accession

Catharina Raudvere
Journal Article

2007

The role of the state in development in the Middle East

lessons from Syria

Forum for Development Studies, 34

Read publication (external link)

DIIS Longread

2018

Turkey’s security pivot towards Russia runs deeper than we think

but reflects a new approach to Turkish security manoeuvring

Jakob Lindgaard
DIIS Policy Brief

2017

Refugees in Turkey struggle as border walls grow higher

The EU-Turkey deal on migration

Ida Marie Savio Vammen & Hans Lucht

Download (pdf, 4.1 MB)
DIIS Policy Brief

2017

Turkey's rapprochement with Iran

Challenges and opportunities for Europe

Jakob Lindgaard

Download (pdf, 2.3 MB)
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Brief

2015

Turkey's Role in Development Cooperation

Jeannine Hausmann & Erik Lundsgaarde

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DIIS Policy Brief

2014

A difficult balancing act

backing the Kurds in the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria

Helle Malmvig & Hetav Rojan

Download (pdf, 3.1 MB)
DIIS Comment

2013

Protests in Turkey

Theodore Baird
DIIS Policy Brief

2008

EU 27, Croatia and Turkey are watching

with or without the Lisbon Treaty

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DIIS Policy Brief

2007

Turkey's future : EU member or 'Islamist Rogue State'?

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Photo/illustration by Morten L. Kringelbach

Weaving narratives: Autoethnographic migration research in the making

DIIS Auditorium

Autoetnography is emerging as a trend in current research. Come and reflect on the different ways to use personal experience and positionality with four migration scholars
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Project

30 June 2017

The Future of EU-Turkey Relations

Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Lecture

21 February 2017

The New Turkey

Lecture at Aarhus University on Turkey since July 15
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Conference

3 December 2015

What do we know about teaching the Holocaust?

International Research Conference on key challenges and opportunities
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Workshop

17 November 2015

Adversaries, Neighbors, Kins?

MICS-workshop on Turkey's foreign policy and the Eurasien Region, 19-20 November
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

3 September 2015

Call for papers: Adversaries, Neighbors, Kins? Tensions and Security Potentials in Turkey and the Eurasian Region
Images and the Yezidi-genocide

Auditorium