GPoT Center hosted Dr. Peter Jones, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of University of Ottawa, Canada, to speak about Iran and its position amid recent regional challenges and impact of the "Arab Spring" uprisings, on the 8th of November, 2012.

GPoT Center in collaboration with the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences (FSES) of the Comenius University in Slovakia organized the Inaugural Suna Roundtable Discussion entitled The Middle East on Rise: Turkey and the EU on the premises of the FSES in Bratislava on October 25, 2012.

The event took place with the aim to commemorate H.E. Suna Çokgür Ilıcak, who passed away while serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the Slovak Republic in 2006.

GPoT Center’s staff participated in the conference “Support to Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement (SATR) Project: Highlights and Prospects” from October 22nd to 23rd, 2012. The goal of the conference, held in Istanbul, was to prepare grounds for stakeholders in Armenia and Turkey to pick up and capitalize on the achievements of the SATR project.  

Global Political Trends Center (GPoT Center) together with Fredrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute organized a two-day international workshop on the challenges for Turkey and Israel in the changing Middle East and influence of the media in Turkish-Israeli relations which went from the 15th to the 16th of October, 2012.

GPoT Center, in partnership with the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), organized a three-day introductory workshop on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament with the participation of 20 international experts, journalists, and representatives of civil society between the 10th and 12th of October, 2012.

Lenka Peťková, project officer at GPoT Center, participated in the inaugural Power of One Conference held in Nicosia's Buffer Zone between the 9th and 11th of October, 2012. The aim of the three-day event, which brought together some 200 participants from Cyprus, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa, was to provide a platform for inter-regional learning exchange on the role of citizens and civil society in stimulating social change during periods of transition.