GPoT Center’s recent visit to the United States

GPoT Center’s Director Dr. Mensur Akgün and Deputy Director Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki visited New York and Washington, DC between September 19 and 26 to meet with various American think tanks and and state officials in order to exchange ideas in areas the Center focuses on, as well as discuss plans for cooperation.

GPoT Center’s Director Dr. Mensur Akgün and Deputy Director Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki visited New York and Washington, DC between September 19 and 26 to meet with various American think tanks and state officials in order to exchange ideas in areas the Center focuses on, as well as discuss plans for cooperation.

Among the organizations visited were the Albert Schweitzer Institute, Brookings Institute, Center for American Progress, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Eurasia Foundation and US Institute of Peace. Dr. Akgün and Dr. Tiryaki also visited the Turkish Mission to the UN, and met with staffers and advisors from the US Senate, as well as officials from the State Department. Discussions were held mainly around Cyprus, the Kurdish question, Turkey’s repprochement with Armenia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as issues in the greater Middle East.

GPoT Center is very pleased to have had the opportunity to meet with these institutions, and is looking forward to cooperating with them in the future, whether in the form of joint projects, future conferences or publications. Developments on this front will be announced on GPoT Center’s website.