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<a title="Roundtable meeting with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Journalists" href="/conferences/465"><img alt="Roundtable meeting with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Journalists" src="/resimler/presidentgreat.jpg" /></a>
<h2><a title="Roundtable meeting with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Journalists" href="/conferences/465">Roundtable meeting with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Journalists</a></h2>
<p><a title="" href="/conferences/465">GPoT Center,in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, organized the 6th Round of Cyprus Talks, previously called the Heybeliada Talks, between 26 and 28 February in Istanbul...</a></p>
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<a title="Roundtable meeting: On the way to the G-20 London Summit" href="/conferences/155"><img alt="Roundtable meeting: On the way to the G-20 London Summit" src="/resimler/g20londonsummit.jpg" /></a>
<h2><a title="Roundtable meeting: On the way to the G-20 London Summit" href="/conferences/155">Roundtable meeting: On the way to the G-20 London Summit</a></h2>
<p><a title="" href="/conferences/155">In collaboration with the British Embassy in Ankara, Global Political Trends Center (GPoT) has organized a roundtable meeting on the global economic crisis and the G20 London Summit that will be held in April 2009.</a></p>
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<a title="GPoT- LSE: Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy" href="/conferences/395"><img alt="GPoT- LSE: Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy" src="/resimler/gla0.jpg" /></a>
<h2><a title="GPoT- LSE: Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy" href="/conferences/395">GPoT- LSE: Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy</a></h2>
<p><a title="" href="/conferences/395">GPoT and the Contemporary Turkish Studies Chair at LSE organized a joint conference on the &#8220;Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy&#8221;.</a></p>
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<a title="Alliance of civilizations and Union for Mediterranean region" href="/conferences/244"><img alt="Alliance of civilizations and Union for Mediterranean region" src="/resimler/baharbigg.jpg" /></a>
<h2><a title="Alliance of civilizations and Union for Mediterranean region" href="/conferences/244">Alliance of civilizations and Union for Mediterranean region</a></h2>
<p><a title="" href="/conferences/244">Alliance of civilizations and Union for Mediterranean region: Two compatibles or concurrent process.

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<a title="International Seminar: EU-Turkey Relations and the Swedish Presidency" href="/conferences/189"><img alt="International Seminar: EU-Turkey Relations and the Swedish Presidency" src="/resimler/stockholmb.jpg" /></a>
<h2><a title="International Seminar: EU-Turkey Relations and the Swedish Presidency" href="/conferences/189">International Seminar: EU-Turkey Relations and the Swedish Presidency</a></h2>
<p><a title="" href="/conferences/189">In collaboration with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Global Political Trends Center organized an international conference in Stockholm, Sweden on 25 May 2009.</a></p>
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<h2><a title="Heybeliada Talks - 7th Round" href="/conferences/540">Heybeliada Talks - 7th Round</a></h2>
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<b>31.07.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>GPoT with assistance from the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, organized the 7th Heybeliada Meeting this past weekend in Heybeliada Istanbul. </p>
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<h2><a title="Days Two and Three in Armenia - Turkey Rapprochement: Second Round" href="/conferences/539">Days Two and Three in Armenia - Turkey Rapprochement: Second Round</a></h2>
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<b>12.07.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>GPoT in partnership with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) - Armenia and with assistance from USAID and Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, organized the 2nd round of the Project Second Round of the Days Two and Three in Turkish - Armenian Rapprochement.</p>
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<h2><a title="Jerusalem: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Peace" href="/conferences/515">Jerusalem: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Peace</a></h2>
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<b>27.05.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>GPoT Center and the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People organized a Public Forum entitled &#8220;Jerusalem: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Peace&#8221; at Istanbul Kultur University on May 27, 2010.</p>
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<h2><a title="Days Two and Three in Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement" href="/conferences/504">Days Two and Three in Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement</a></h2>
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<b>01.04.2010, Yerevan, Armenia</b>
<p>Global Political Trends Center (GPoT) organized a workshop in collaboration with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Armenia (EPF) with the participation of Turkish and Armenian stakeholders, experts and journalists between 24-28 March 2010 in Yerevan. </p>
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<h2><a title="Roundtable meeting with Ambassador Edward Djerejian" href="/conferences/474">Roundtable meeting with Ambassador Edward Djerejian</a></h2>
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<b>04.03.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>Global Political Trends Center organized a roundtable meeting on March 3rd featuring a presentation with Ambassador Edward Djerejian, the Founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Texas. </p>
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<h2><a title="Roundtable meeting with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Journalists" href="/conferences/465">Roundtable meeting with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Journalists</a></h2>
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<b>28.02.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>GPoT Center,in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, organized the 6th Round of Cyprus Talks, previously called the Heybeliada Talks, between 26 and 28 February in Istanbul...</p>
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<h2><a title="State of Armenian Irregular Migrants in Turkey" href="/conferences/455">State of Armenian Irregular Migrants in Turkey</a></h2>
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<b>15.02.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>Results of the research project &#8220;State of Armenian Irregular Migrants in Turkey&#8221; carried out by the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) were presented at GPoT Center/Istanbul Kültür University.</p>
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<h2><a title="The Non-Copenhagen criteria that are applied to Turkey" href="/conferences/450">The Non-Copenhagen criteria that are applied to Turkey</a></h2>
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<b>09.02.2010, Istanbul</b>
<p>GPoT organized a lecture by H.E. Ingmar Karlsson on 9 February 2010.</p>
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<h3>Yalım Eralp</h3><b class="kahve">The Bermuda Triangle: Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia</b><br /><a href="/dosyalar/bermudatriangle.pdf" title="">Download</a>
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