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.

Four Turkish students traveled to Armenia from December 5th to the 7th, 2011 to participate in numerous screenings of their short documentary films, which they shot in Armenia earlier this year.

GPoT Center, in cooperation with the European Movement Denmark, organized a conference entitled “EU-Turkey Relations and the Denmark Presidency” on December 6th, 2011 in Copenhagen with the participation of Turkey's Minister of European Affairs and Chief Negotiator, Egemen Bağış.

Susae Elanchenny attended the "Partnership Program between Turks and Armenians" conference, organized by Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights and the International Center for Human Development, from December 5th to 6th, 2011 in Yerevan.

The conference allowed the Turkish and Armenian partners of the USAID-funded "Support to Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement (SATR)" program to evaluate the previous year of the project and discuss the scope of activities for the coming year.