Turkish sports diplomacy in the service of renewed power? The uses and limits of Turkey’s “sport power”

For the first time in its fifteen years of brilliant yet unsuccessful candidacies to host the Olympic Games (OG) and the Football European Championships (Euro), Turkey was admitted into the elite group of countries capable of staging sports mega-events. Although it failed in the last round for the 2...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-François Polo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2016-03-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/5241