Necessary but not sufficient: The role of the EU in Resolving Turkey's Kurdish question and the Greek-Turkish Conflicts

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 203-222

  Çelik, Ayşe Betül ^a   Rumelili, Bahar ^b  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 85050847109     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr2006017     Document Type: Review

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