Since its establishment, GPoT Center has been at the forefront in Turkey in terms of keeping the cyprus issue relevant. We have been regularly bringing together opinion leaders from North and South cyprus, as well as Greece and Turkey, under the banner of the “Heybeliada Talks”, to discuss issues pertaining to the solution of the cyprus question.
Topic: Cyprus , 01.12.2013 - IstanbulThe project aims to empower the expert community and media from Moldova as well as the main stakeholders involved in the search for a solution of the Transnistrian conflict with knowledge about feasible models of conflict settlement and trust building initiatives observed in the cyprus case.
Topic: European Union , 14.04.2013 - Turkey, Cyprus, MoldovaOn May 12, 2012, the Director of GPoT Center Dr. Mensur Akgün moderated a panel at the conference entitled "Arab Spring, Eastern Mediterranean and the cyprus Problem" organized by Insight Turkey in cooperation with the Academy cyprus at the Yakın Doğu University in Nicosia.
Topic: Cyprus , 12.05.2012 - NicosiaTurkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation published Dr. Akgün's article in which he foresees what could possibly happen if no solution to the cyprus problem is found.
Topic: Cyprus , 01.03.2012 - IstanbulGPoT Center introduced its Op-Ed Series on current topics in international relations at the beginning of 2012. We continue to publish new Op-Eds periodically on our website. To see the most updated list, please click on the title of this webnote.
Topic: Turkey , 28.02.2012 - IstanbulA brief glance at the outcome of the latest round of negotiations between the leaders of the two communities in New York in late January, the so-called Greentree Summit, shows us that the two Cypriot communities still agree approximately on what they did in the period before the Annan Plan. At the summit neither side came up with innovative ideas or new proposals.
Topic: Cyprus , 15.02.2012 - IstanbulAs Turkey marks its 60th anniversary as a member of NATO on February 18th, the importance of the Alliance is as clear as ever, given international and regional security challenges.
Topic: Turkey , 14.02.2012 - IstanbulA final effort is being made to unite the divided island, but many believe that the stalemate will continue. With just months remaining before cyprus is expected to assume the rotating EU presidency this summer, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made a final effort to bring Turkish Cypriot President Dervish Eroglu and his Greek Cypriot counterpart Dimitris Christofias closer to a solution in a two-day meeting that ended Wednesday (January 25th) at Greentree, near New York City.
Topic: Cyprus , 26.01.2012 - IstanbulThe second piece in our Op-Ed series is devoted to the figure of the former President of the Turkish Republic of Northern cyprus, Rauf Denktaş, who passed away on January 13, 2012. The Op-Ed features two articles. The first one is entitled "Instead of Farewell / Veda Yerine" and is from the pen of Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki. The second one entitled "Denktaş No More / Denktaş Artık Yok" is written by Dr. Mensur Akgün.
Topic: Cyprus , 17.01.2012 - IstanbulDenktaş denince insanların aklına siyasi duruşlarına bağlı olarak iki şey gelir. Ya çözüm karşıtı bir lider olarak tanınır ya da büyük bir vatansever. Yani o ya siyahtır ya beyaz. Çok azımız onun bırakın renkli yanlarını, gri tonlarını bilir. Çok azımız onun insani özelliklerini önemser.
Topic: Cyprus , 17.01.2012 - IstanbulIn June 2009, GPoT Center published a book by the former Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktaş and Professor Michael Moran. The publication entitled “cyprus: Unity and Difference” is a collection of letters exchanged between President Denktaş and Professor Moran.
Topic: Cyprus , 16.01.2012 - Istanbul2011 did not signal there is a light at the end of Turkey's EU tunnel, and 2012 looks to be even more problematic. As Turkey enters 2012, its EU accession process remains on the brink of paralysis. On the political front there has not been any significant progress, while the eurozone crisis has shifted European and Turkish policy makers' attention away from further expansion and integration.
Topic: Cyprus , 03.01.2012 - IstanbulGPoT Center organized the 11th Round of the Heybeliada Talks with the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation on the 17th of December, 2011.
Topic: Cyprus , 17.12.2011 - NicosiaGPoT Center Director Dr. Mensur Akgün and Deputy Director Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki attended a series of meetings at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Policy and Mediation Division, directed by Ambassador Levent Bilman, between December 10-15, 2011 in New York City.
Topic: Other , 15.12.2011 - New YorkGPoT Center in cooperation with the European Movement Denmark organized a conference entitled “EU-Turkey Relations and the Denmark Presidency” on 6 December 2011 in Copenhagen with the participation of Turkey's Minister of European Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış.
Topic: European Union , 06.12.2011 - CopenhagenWith his typically sharp tongue, the Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bağış snapped at the Greek Cypriot diplomat who questioned how Turkey expected to ask them to lift the veto on membership negotiation chapters while denying their ships from Turkish ports.
Topic: European Union , 06.12.2011 - CopenhagenNarod Maraşlıyan from GPoT Center attended the Building the Future of cyprus: Multi-Stakeholder Strategic Planning Forum, organized by the Institute for Eurodemocracy, CES & PATRIR-IPDTC on the 2-3 December, 2011.
Topic: Cyprus , 03.12.2011 - NicosiaGPoT’s Deputy Director, Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki wrote an article for Turkish Review’s October-December 2011 edition with the title of “Turkey’s broken path to EU membership.”
Topic: European Union , 01.12.2011 - IstanbulGPoT Center hosted a meeting on November 19, 2011, which was organized by the cyprus Academic Dialogue. Academics and intellectuals from both sides of cyprus, and Turkey discussed the current issues in the cyprus conflict and produced a memorandum to be shared with the senior policy-makers.
Topic: Cyprus , 19.11.2011 - IstanbulTurkey’s government still wants a solution for the divided island of cyprus but sees there won’t be one, says an academic who has long worked for reunification. According to Mensur Akgün, Turkey’s PM wants to give the message that getting 50 percent of the votes will not make him more flexible.
Topic: Cyprus , 22.07.2011 - Istanbul
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