Dr. Akgün participated in the panel discussion "Evaluation of the Turkish Foreign Policy" organized by the Bilim ve Sanat Vakfı (Foundation for Science and Art - BISAV) on December 21, 2011 in Istanbul.

A video from the meeting is available on the BISAV's website here.

GPoT Center organized the 11th Round of the Heybeliada Talks with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on the 17th of December, 2011.

It has been a great pleasure for GPoT Center to host Dr. Knut Kirste, a senior officer from NATO’s Public Policy Divison on December 15th, 2011 at a roundtable meeting on the topic of “Emerging Security Challenges: What role for NATO?”.

GPoT Center Director Dr. Mensur Akgün and Deputy Director Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki attended a series of meetings at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Policy and Mediation Division, directed by Ambassador Levent Bilman, between December 10th and 15th, 2011 in New York City.

With the aim to increase the cooperation between Turkey and Indonesia on the issue of democratic movements in the MENA region, a group of diplomats from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited GPoT Center on December 8th, 2011.