On December 6, 2013, GPoT Center organized the public launch of the “When All Players Can Win” report on Cyprus, written by Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou and Özlem Oğuz Çilsal.
The event took place on the premises of Istanbul Kültür University and was attended by approximately twenty international and local academics, students, and civil society representatives.
Poland and Turkey will celebrate the 600th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations next year. In the run-up to this historical milestone, GPoT Center, in partnership with demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, organized The First Polish Turkish Roundtable.
The aim of the event, co-financed by the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, was to discuss areas of prospective collaboration and to strengthen the relations between the two countries.
The 14th round of the Heybeliada Talks took place on November 23, 2013 in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone with the participation of approximately 15 representatives of the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities, Greece, and Turkey.
GPoT Center, in collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), in Turkey organized a public panel during FES's 2nd Inter-Regional Summit on Afghanistan, which took place in Istanbul with the participation of ambassadors, experts, and academicians from Afghanistan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, Japan, Russia, among other Asian countries, from the 20th to the 22nd of November 2013.
GPoT Center, in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNS), in Turkey organized a roundtable discussion with the participation of GPoT Center's High Advisory Board Members, including former ambassadors and state officials.
The event, entitled “New Challenges and New Paradigm in Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Axis Shift In The Middle East“, took place on Büyükada, Istanbul, between the 15th and 17th of November, with a one-day roundtable discussion organized on Saturday 16th, followed by a concluding session on Sunday 17th.
Together with the Israeli Institute For Regional Foreign Policy Studies (MITVIM) and in coorperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation (FES) in Israel, GPoT Center organized a two day round of meetings and roundtables in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on 28-30 October 2013.
The event, named “Comparing Conflicts, Seeking Resolutions” is part of the initiatives that the MITVIM and GPoT Center have been carrying together since 2012 in the prospect of fostering Turkish-Israeli dialogue.
GPoT Center in cooperation with the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and the Human Security Collective organized a Seminar of the Civil Society Network for Human Security, entitled “Human Security Perspectives on Developments in the Middle East”.
GPoT Center hosted a two-day debate and dialogue training followed by an exclusive live debate on foreign military intervention in Syria from the 16th to the 18th of September 2013.
At the 13th round of the Heybeliada Talks, journalists, opinion and political leaders, civil society representatives, and academics from both sides of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey discussed the impact of the recent Turkish Cypriot elections on the new round of Cyprus talks under the auspices of the UN, which is expected to start in the fall.
It was the pleasure of GPoT Center to host the two co-authors, Caroline Mesrobian Hickman and John Edward Hasse, of the newly published book “The Turkish Ambassador’s Residence and the Cultural History of Washington, D.C.”