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Maxime Gauin

Apr 10, 2015, 11:38 PM

“Partisan” writer Yair Auron attacks a key ally of Israel

He did it again. After his strident op-ed published in Haaretz last autumn and the various responses this text received (including my reply in the same daily, written with Alexander Murinson), Yair Auron attacked once again Azerbaijan, a key...

Mar 12, 2015, 8:00 PM

Turkey, the Jews and the commemorations of the Holocaust

This is certainly unfortunate that the diplomatic and political relations between Jerusalem and Ankara did not recover yet from the crises of 2009 and 2010-11. However, and remarkably, these crises did not damage the economic relations (the bilateral trade...

Jan 19, 2015, 11:49 PM

The Perinçek v. Switzerland case and the Holocaust denial

On January 28, the hearing of the Perinçek v. Switzerland case will take place in front of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. This is one of the most important cases regarding the freedom of...

Dec 22, 2014, 1:01 AM

Why Reuven Rivlin was finally right on the Armenian issue

Contrary to his engagement preceding his elections as President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin stopped to support the “Armenian genocide” accusation. There are indeed strong foreign policy reasons for such a change—and some of the most important ones were exposed in...

About Me

Maxime Gauin has a master in History from Paris-I-Sorbonne University. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Middle East Technical University department and a researcher at the Center for Eurasian Studies (both are located in Ankara). He has published articles in peer-review journals (including the European Journal of International Law) as well as in Turkish newspapers (for instance Hürriyet Daily News, Cumhuriyet and Daily Sabah).