GPoT Center's deputy director Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki participated in a meeting on Turkish perspectives on a changing Middle East, organized in Madrid, Spain from the 15-16 December 2013.
The meeting entitled "Turkish perspectives on a changing Middle East" was organized by the Toledo International Centre for Peace (CITpax) and the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOP). It opened with a welcome dinner on December 15th at the Residence of the Turkish Ambassador to Spain, hosted by H.E. Ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu.
On December 6, 2013, GPoT Center organized the public launch of the “When All Players Can Win” report on Cyprus, written by Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou and Özlem Oğuz Çilsal.
The event took place on the premises of Istanbul Kültür University and was attended by approximately twenty international and local academics, students, and civil society representatives.
¿Está la Unión Europea perdiendo relevancia en sus fronteras orientales? De la crisis de Ucrania a la inestabilidad política en el Cáucaso, pasando por el languideciente proceso de adhesión de Turquía, la UE experimenta toda una serie de dificultades que cuestionan la potencia del soft power europeo en su flanco derecho.
Poland and Turkey will celebrate the 600th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations next year. In the run-up to this historical milestone, GPoT Center, in partnership with demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, organized The First Polish Turkish Roundtable.
The aim of the event, co-financed by the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, was to discuss areas of prospective collaboration and to strengthen the relations between the two countries.
GPoT Center's project officer Sofia Hafdell participated in the Fourth Meeting of the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly, which was organized in Istanbul from the 21st to the 24th of November 2013.
The 14th round of the Heybeliada Talks took place on November 23, 2013 in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone with the participation of approximately 15 representatives of the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities, Greece, and Turkey.