On Wednesday, June 8, 2011 a group of 17 Turkish and American young professionals participating in the US State Department funded "Young Turkey / Young America" program visited GPoT Center.

On Friday, June 3, 2011, Global Political Trends Center in partnership with New York University's Center on International Cooperation and the Institute of Strategic Thinking (Stratejik Düşünce Enstitüsü) and with the support of the Turkish and Norwegian Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

International Political Science Association (IPSA) has chosen one of the latest GPoT Center books to feature in the May issue of the IPSA Newsletter.

The publication entitled "The Heybeliada Talks: Two Years of Public Diplomacy on Cyprus" prepared by Lenka Peťková and edited by Drs. Sylvia Tiryaki and Mensur Akgün was presented in the "Books by Members" section of the IPSA Newsletter in May 2011.

Dr. Mensur Akgün together with Sabiha Senyücel Gündoğar, Aybars Görgülü, and Erdem Aydın prepared a report featuring results of the research on the "Perceptions of the Foreign Policy in Turkey".

Press meeting with the participation of the authors, as well as the Chairman of the TESEV Executive Board, Can Paker, and the rector of the Kadir Has University, Mustafa Aydın, was held on June 1, 2011. To read the report in Turkish click here.

Summary of the Main Results in Turkish

The Director of GPoT Center, Dr. Mensur Akgün, with his colleagues from TESEV, participated in a joint event organized by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and TESEV in Berlin on May 23rd, 2011.

During the event, they presented a study conducted by TESEV and supported by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, examining how Turks perceive the current foreign policy of their country. According to the findings, in the past, the views of the ordinary citizen differed from the official foreign policy. This is less and less the case - examples are relations with Israel, Armenia, Iran and Greece.

Armenian and Turkish journalists and civil society activists met in Yerevan for a three-day conference organized by GPoT Center in cooperation with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) and Yerevan Press Club (YPC) to discuss the current state of the Armenia-Turkey relations and upcoming parliamentary elections in Turkey.