GPoT Center’s Sofia Hafdell attended the 2012 Ørecomm Festival “Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Communication, Power and Social Change”, organized by the Ørecomm Centre for Communication and Glocal Change.

The Ørecomm research centre, originated by Malmö University, Sweden and Roskilde University, Denmark, invited researchers, students, and practitioners to its four-day seminar that started in Roskilde (1 day), moved on to Malmö (2 days) and closed in Copenhagen (1 day).

GPoT Center, in collaboration with the Center for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, hosted Amb. Hüseyin Diriöz on the premises of Istanbul Kültür University on September 17th, 2012.

GPoT Center, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s Istanbul office and the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies(MITVIM), organized an interactive policy discussion entitled “Turkish-Israeli relations and the Paradigm Shift in the Middle East” with the participation of leading Israeli and Turkish experts on September 13th, 2012.

Lenka Peťková, together with 46 other young professionals and students from twelve different countries, participated in the 11th edition of the Visegrad Summer School hosted by the Villa Decius Association in Cracow between July 1st and 14th, 2012.

GPoT Center’s Director, Dr. Mensur Akgün, and Deputy Director Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki attended the conference “Addressing violent extremism: Creating space for civil society”, a side event on the occasion of the UN General Assembly review of the Global Counterterrorism Strategy, which was held at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York on June 26th, 2012.

On June 2012, GPoT Center was welcomed as the 56th associate member, and first ever Turkish organization, to join the Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS).