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.

GPoT Center, Yerevan Press Club (YPC) and Internews Armenia organized a media reporting bus tour starting from Istanbul and ending in Yerevan between May 3-18, 2011. Journalists from Turkey and Armenia visited many historical places and had meetings with several NGOs and local political leaders.

GPoT Center celebrated Europe Day on May 6th, 2011 at Istanbul Kültür University with the Istanbul opening of the exhibition entitled "50 Years of Turkey-EU Relations in the Press."