Robert Ellis Archive
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Eastward Bound
Posted on June 18, 2010 | No CommentsThis article first appeared at FrontPage Magazine. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently blamed Europe for alienating Turkey from the West. On a visit to London last Wednesday, he stated,... -
Erdogan’s Troubling Friends
Posted on June 9, 2010 | No CommentsThis article first appeared at FrontPage Magazine. In 1974, when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was president of the Istanbul youth group of the MSP (the Islamist National Salvation Party), he wrote,... -
Demopoulos and others v. Turkey
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsThis article was written by my good friend Robert Ellis and first appeared in the print edition of Hürriyet Daily News. The non-admissibility decision a fortnight ago by the European Court... -
The Cypriot Stumbling Block
Posted on October 17, 2009 | 2 CommentsThis analysis by Robert Ellis was first published at PoliGazette. Like Ireland, Cyprus has been a victim of geography and both are today still divided. As the Arab geographer Muqaddasi... -
A Firebell in the Night: The Prospect of Turkey’s Membership Sounds the Knell for the European Union
Posted on January 17, 2009 | No CommentsThis column first appeared at PoliGazette. A Firebell in the Night: The Prospect of Turkey’s Membership Sounds the Knell for the European Union By Robert Ellis Thomas Jefferson, in a...
