About GPoT

Global Political Trends Center (GPoT) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution established under the auspices of Istanbul Kültür University in 2008.

Our mission is to conduct high quality, independent and innovative research and education, acting as a link between policy-making institutions, academia, civil society and the media.

The Center aims to achieve this by routinely bringing together opinion leaders, government officials and other policy-makers, analysts and members of the media from Turkey, the region and elsewhere. Our activities range from conducting projects and research that analyze the contemporary social, political and economic trends in regional and international politics and producing policy recommendations, contributing to public debate through roundtable discussions and international conferences to publishing policy briefs and monographs, among others.

In accordance with its mission, GPoT Center has been active in virtually all fronts concerning not only Turkish foreign policy but the current regional and international agenda, including Turkey’s European Union accession process, the Cyprus issue, NATO, the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process, issues in the Middle East and North Africa, national and regional democratization, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and, most recently, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Having become one of Turkey’s most active think-tanks in a short amount of time, GPoT Center conducts these activities either independently or in partnership with national and international institutions. The Center has collaborated with institutions such as the London School of Economics, Center for Geostrategic Studies at the École Normale Supérieure, The Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Ibn-Khaldun Center for Development Studies, EUROPEUM, Center for Arab Unity Studies, Arab Democracy Foundation, Slovak Foreign Policy Association and Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) on various projects.

Recent Publications

Alon Liel – Can Yirik

Turkish-Israeli Relations (1949-2010)
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Yalım Eralp

The Bermuda Triangle: Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia
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Michael Moran

Britain and the 1960 Cyprus Accords: A Study in Pragmatism
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Upcoming Events

• Washington, September 2010
  Turkish-Israeli Relations (1949-2010)

• Washington, September 2010
  Conference on Turkish Foreign Policy

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