The workshop specifically was designed to address the political economies of large scale housing projects in the peripheries of the world’s cities. The event/project is about the various ways in which peripheral urban housing projects are being built and re-vitalized.

GPoT Center and Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) International Relations Club organized an event with IKU students on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

In the event, Ret. Ambassador Dr. Oğuz Çellikkol, and GPoT Center's Muhammed Ammash briefed the students about the Palestinian Question and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as Turkey's relations with actors in the region.

GPoT Center organised the 19th round of the Heybeliada Talks: Series of Second Track Diplomacy Meetings on Cyprus, on 21 November 2015 in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone, Cyprus. 

The event took place with the participation of approximately 25 civil society activists, opinion makers, academics, journalists, and experts from Turkey, Greece, and both sides of Cyprus.

"If the opportunity to solve the Cyprus problem doesn’t become a missed one again, plenty of opportunities for peaceful cooperation would emerge in the region. Especially Greece and Turkey can benefit from extending support, entailing fully-fledged cooperation to bring stability and security in the eastern Mediterranean".

Article co-authored by GPoT Center Deputy Director Dr. Sylvia Tiryak and Bridging Europe Director Dimitris Rapidis.

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The sixth annual conference for diplomatic dialogue between Israel and Turkey, held by the Global Political Trends Center (GPoT Center) and the Israeli Institute for Regional Policies (MITVIM), took place last week in Israel. As part of conference schedule, we conducted meetings with representatives from the Foreign Ministry and Knesset while discussing current issues with both Israeli and Palestinian opinion leaders.

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