From 26 – 28 April 2012, Dr. Mensur Akgün attended the workshop entitled Governance for a Changing World that was organized by the The Hague Institute for Global Justice (THIGJ), in close cooperation with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘Clingendael’.
Topic: Other , 28.04.2012 - HagueSofia Hafdell's article entitled "Turkey's Strategic Role in NATO" was published on the blog FUF-korrespondenterna, which is bound to the Swedish Development Forum. To read the article of GPoT Center intern - Sofia Hafdell - in Swedish, visit FUF-korrespondenterna or continue reading below.
Topic: Turkey , 05.03.2012 - StockholmThe legacy of the February 28th coup reinforces calls for a new civilian constitution. As controversial coup plot trials like Ergenekon and Sledgehammer continue, Turkey marks the 15th anniversary of the February 28th process. Known as a "post-modern coup" that ultimately brought down the Islamist Welfare Party and True Path Party (Refah-Yol) coalition in 1997, the memorandum handed to the late Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan outlining the army's concerns over the threat to secularism has had a lasting impact on the civil-military relations in the country.
Topic: Turkey , 28.02.2012 - 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 - IstanbulTurkish and Armenian NGOs and civil society groups continue to pursue "second track diplomacy" to maintain momentum. Following official attempts at rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia in 2008 with so-called "Football diplomacy", civil society groups on both sides of the border began to engage more each other more actively.
Topic: Armenia , 03.02.2012 - 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 - IstanbulEgemen Bagiş ‘başmüzakereci’ ve ardindan o sifat da kendisinde kalmak üzere Avrupa Birligi Bakani olduktan sonra görev alanina giren konulara muazzam hâkim hale gelmiş. Çok bilmiş genç bir Kibris Rum diplomati konferansi sonrasinda soru sorduguna pişman etti.
Topic: European Union , 07.12.2011 - CopenhagenAvrupa Birliği Bakanı Egemen Bağış ile Danimarka’nın başkenti Kopenhag’dayız. Hürriyet Daily News’ten Murat Yetkin, Star’dan Fehmi Koru ve Yeni Şafak’tan Yusuf Ziya Cömert ile birlikte bakanın görüşmelerini takip ediyoruz. Kopenhag yılın bu döneminde çok soğuk ve gri bir şehir. Bundan uzun yıllar önce -2002’de- yine buradaydım.
Topic: European Union , 07.12.2011 - CopenhagenAvrupa Birliği Bakanı ve Başmüzakereci Egemen Bağış, Türkiye'nin AB üyesi olmasının AB'nin yararına olacağını kaydetti.
Topic: European Union , 07.12.2011 - CopenhagenGPoT 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 - CopenhagenGPoT’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 conference with Dr. Alon Liel, in which he presented photos from his and Mr. Can Yirik’s book Turkish-Israeli Relations (1949-2010), a pictorial history of the bilateral relationship from its foundations to the present day.
Topic: Israel , 21.11.2011 - IstanbulTurecko má stále zájem o členství v Evropské unii, navzdory dluhové krizi eurozóny. V rozhovoru pro britský nedělník Sunday Telegraph to řekl turecký prezident Abdulláh Gül, který zítra oficiálně zahájí státní návštěvu Británie. Turecký prezident je ve Velké Británii poprvé po 23 letech.
Topic: European Union , 21.11.2011 - PragueOnur Bayramoğlu from GPoT Center attended the Istanbul Cross Regional Workshop on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which was organized from 15 to 17 November at Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel, in Istanbul.
Topic: Other , 17.11.2011 - IstanbulDirector of GPoT Center, Dr. Mensur Akgün, participated in the EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2011 in Barcelona between October 6-7, 2011.
Topic: Other , 07.10.2011 - BarcelonaAs the world’s and Turkey’s markets swoon, currency values gyrate and global investors rush back to their chalkboards, a moment please to focus on the real “deficit.” America and europe can pay their bills and Turkey can get its increasingly messy house in order. The real problem is not a lack of credit but a lack of political credibility. That, in turn, is a result of the most important deficit: a deficit of ideas.
Topic: Other , 10.08.2011 - IstanbulThe european debate about immigration and integration can be compared to the one in the United States one hundred years ago.
Topic: Other , 05.08.2011 - LundThe apparent resignations come amid a standoff over jailed officers. Symbolically, it’s the end of the period of the military involvement in politics.’ — Asli Aydintasbas, columnist for the daily newspaper Milliyet
Topic: Turkey , 30.07.2011 - IstanbulThe Norwegian mass murderer Andres Behring Brevik has been obsessed with the idea that europe is undergoing a rapid process of Islamization and changing into a “Eurabia” where Christians and Jews would be forced to live as oppressed minorities and where churches, cathedrals and synagogues are replaced by mosques and minarets.
Topic: Other , 25.07.2011 - Lund
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