Who could have ever imagined 2019 as a better year than what we currently have!
The members of @WFP14 have documented “2019” in a recent study on “World Politics and Turkish Foreign Policy in 2019”, and the English version this work is now available at: http://wfp14.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/almanac2019-eng.pdf

In 2019, “from the European continent to the Americas, leaders of many countries maintained policies that violated universal human rights, norms and even international conventions.” @zeyneppalemdar @sinemacikmese #Almanac2019

“In 2019, waves of popular revolt spread around the world. From Algeria to Lebanon, from Hong Kong to France, Chile to Iraq, Iran to Spain and from there to Bolivia, different claims in different countries mobilized the masses.” @AysenUysal73 #Almanac2019

In 2019, “it was women who brought the Las Tesis performance, which decries a system that is responsible for violence against women, from its beginnings in Chile to the rest of Latin America and eventually France, Greece, Turkey, Canada and Australia.” @zeyneppalemdar #Almanac2019

“The awareness created by the #MeToo movement was also closely followed in 2019 in Turkey, leading to some celebrities, especially from creative fields, to disclose the sexual abuse and violence they had been subjected to.” #sevgiuçançubukçu #Almanac2019

“Trump’s average of 32 lies a day increased markedly after July 25, 2019, following his telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about Joe Biden, the former vice president and current Democratic candidate for president.” @peripateticpers #Almanac2019

“More engagement with the digital world and effective use of Twiplomacy by digital great powers as they announced and defended their interests to national and international audiences continued through 2019.” #burcusarıkarademir @habibeozdal #Almanac2019

“The increasingly complex course of the Syrian civil war in 2019 and escalating internal conflict in Libya at the end of the year introduced new problems and dynamics into the domestic and foreign policies of regional countries, including Turkey.” @kaygusuzo #Almanac2019

“2019 demonstrated that states followed policies that resulted in restricting immigration, were uncooperative, encouraged irregular migration that led to deaths at sea led to cases of refugee refoulement.” @DenizSSert @Basakkale #Almanac2019

“At the end of 2019, as most governments took steps to fulfil the promise of limiting global temperature rises under the Paris Climate Agreement, the United States declared it had initiated the formal withdrawal from accord.” @cigdemustun #Almanac2019

“One of the developments that marked the year 2019 is the victory of the Tory Party and its leader Boris Johnson in snap elections on December 12, 2019, in the United Kingdom... Brexit is real now and the process of leaving started on January 31, 2020...” @narisan61 #Almanac2019

“The Asia-Pacific region was at the top of global agenda in 2019 with historic developments such as the U.S.-China trade war, the Hong Kong protests and the bushfires in Australia.” #sirmaaltun #Almanac2019

“Since the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, we are in a period where a couple of issues have taken Turkish–U.S. relations hostage. This trend was consolidated in 2019.“ @barcinyinanc #Almanac2019

“As the debate intensified in the first half of 2019, Turkey took delivery of the first part of the missile system on
July 12, 2019. CAATSA gave the president the authority to implement at least five of the 12 sanctions listed in the law.” @Evreki #Almanac2019

“Besides refugees and asylum seekers, in 2019, the number of irregular migrants reached 454,662, its highest level since 2005. In 2019 the issue of migration in general, and Syrian refugees in particular, was a contentious theme of Turkish politics.” @BBCoskun #Almanac2019

In 2019, “Turkish foreign policy has continued to focus on soft power elements in the Balkans, where many challenges in politics, economics, and foreign policy exist. In that respect, Turkey supported the negotiations between Greece and Macedonia.” @birgul_demirtas #Almanac2019

“In 2019, the European Union kept expressing concerns over Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy actions and there were no signs of progress in EU-Turkey relations. “Hypocrisy” between the parties as a defining term of this relationship remained.” @sinemacikmese #Almanac2019

“The Cyprus question, a perennial hot topic in Turkish politics, continued to be a pressing political issue in 2019...The year 2019 marked the re-launch of the Cyprus question with the escalation of tensions in the East Mediterranean...” @basakalpan #Almanac2019

“The events that most impacted the Middle East in 2019 were the United States’ decision to withdraw its troops from Syria, Russia’s increasing influence in the region and U.S.-Iranian tensions.” @karelvalansi #Almanac2019

“In 2019, the Astana meetings in March and the meeting of foreign ministers in September, Turkey’s cautious stance in bilateral relations with Iran evolved into tension over Turkey's demands for a safe zone in Syria.“ @gizembilgin #Almanac2019

“In 2019, the top leadership of China and Turkey brokered deals in several is areas, such as energy, transportation and the environment.” @CerenJilan #Almanac2019

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You may also read the highlights of 2019 #Almanac2019, quoted in this thread, at https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1247424055315238912.html @WFP14 @womenalsoknow @bxlbinder @threadreaderapp