On 11 June, 2013 GPoT Center's Director Mensur Akgün and Deputy Director Sylvia Tiryaki participated as panelists at the Brookings Institute's roundtable discussion, entitled "Exploring New Opportunities for Reconciliation in Cyprus", in Washington, D.C.

Present at the meeting were representatives from the US Department of State, the media, academic institutions, civil society organizations, and inter-governmental as well as non-governmental institutions.

GPoT Center, together with the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., organized the formal book launch event of “The Turkish Ambassador’s Residence and the Cultural History of Washington, D.C.” on June 10 in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

On 7 June 2013 Sylvia Tiryaki attended the Turkish-Slovak Business Forum in Istanbul, Turkey. Before the forum she participated in a private meeting session with the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico.

The forum is part of a series of initiatives that aim to further strengthen Turkish and Slovakian political and economic ties.

On 23 and 24 May 2013 directors of GPoT Center, Mensur Akgün and Sylvia Tiryaki, participated in sessions at a Norwegian Institute of International Affairs’ (NUPI) conference entitled “Turkish and Norwegian Scholars on the Arab Spring”.

Sophia Hutnik from GPoT Center attended a conference hosted by the Istanbul Policy Center entitled the “IPC Observatory: The Future of the Liberal Order” on 23 May 2013.

The first panel of the Conference featured a presentation on a recent Transatlantic Academy Report, “The Democratic Disconnect: Citizenship and Accountability in the Transatlantic Community” given by Richard Youngs and Prof Seyla Benhabib. The second panel was composed of four experts from the region that proceeded to delve into a debate regarding the future of democracy and the liberal order.