Afghanistan and Beyond. Diplomacy Under Siege, 1995-97: Journal of a Turkish Diplomat

Genel Açıklama

212 s, İngilizce.

• Introduction by Hikmet Çetin 
• Foreword 
• Prelude 
• My Appointment and the Spiny Road to Kabul 
• My Appointment to Kabul 
• Prior to my Departure from Geneva and the UN 
• Departure from Geneva and Final Review of the Situation in Ankara 
• Departure for Afghanistan 
• First Contacts in Islamabad 
• Arriving at Kabul and Peace Efforts
• Kabul, a Capital Under Siege and The Turkish Embassy in Kabul 
• My Mission Commences 
• First Shocks in Kabul 
• President Prof. Dr. Burhanuddin Rabbani Ahmad Shah Massood 
• My Fiftieth Birthday in Kabul 
• Calls for Alliance to General Dostum 
• Women’s Associations of Kabul
• Under Fire Peace Efforts (?) 
• Mazar-e Sharif 
• Girls’ College in Kabul 
• Contacts in Islamabad and Ankara 
• Afghanistan Warms Up Resurgence of Gulbiddin Hekmatyar 
• Buzkashi 
• A Synagogue in Kabul 
• The Living Memory of the Embassy: Imameddin Shiva Rabbani’s Reconciliation
• Efforts Face
• Growing Reactions Rehearsal for Doomsday! 
• “Invisible” Visitor from the United States 
• Turkey’s National Sovereignty and Children’s Day of April 23 
• Announcement of my Promotion: I Win my Fight 
• Crescendo 
• Racing to the Finale, Collapse of Common-Sense Last Opportunities, Last Mistakes 
• The Final Count-Down 
• Finale 
• Post Mortem Diplomac: Negotiating Peace with the Taleban Afghanistan
• Falls into Darkness: the Taleban Era Back in Islamabad 
• My New Interim Position: Ambassador in Nişantaşı, Istanbul 
• Turkey’s New Peace Initiative for Afghanistan 
• Shuttle Diplomacy: My First Contacts With the Taleban 
• The Anti-Climax
• My Mission Comes to an End While the Crisis Escalates 
• Conclusions: The Afghan Crisis and its Global Aftermath 
• From Afghanistan to the Middle East and the Black Sea 
• Russia is Back in the Game 
• Current State of Affairs and a Flashback 
• The Expanded Great Game and Turkey 
• Remembering a Centennial: The Russian Bolshevik Revolution 
• Afghanistan: The Political Big Bangof our Times? 
• A Chronology of Afghanistan’s Political History,
• Turkish-Afghan Relations and Related Developments Since the Late Nineteenth Century 
• Index