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DAVOS’taki “one minute” ve Mavi Marmara krizleriyle kopan Türkiye-İsrail ilişkilerinde İsrail’in özürü henüz fazla bir şeyi değiştirmedi.

Siyasi düzeyde diyalogsuzluk devam ediyor. İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi bünyesindeki düşünce kuruluşu GPoT (Küresel Siyasi Eğilimler Merkezi) ile çok uzun yıllardan sonra İsrail’deyim. GPoT ile İsrail’deki düşünce kuruluşu Mitvim’in (İsrail Bölgeler Politikalar Enstitüsü) bir süreden beri ortaklaşa düzenledikleri toplantılar arka plana ışık tutuyor.

Former Turkey UN envoy concedes though that relations were strained following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.

Ümit Pamir, Turkey's former envoy to the United Nations, told I24News he believed the tensions between Israel and his country have been blown out of proportion by sensation-hungry media.

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It is no surprise that the anti-government protests that swept Turkey this year have already become a key issue in elections expected next year. What is unexpected is that a muezzin is the focus of the swelling debate.

Fuat Yildirim angered the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he allowed protesters to rest in his Istanbul mosque during the demonstrations in June. He was later transferred from the Bezmi Alem Sultan mosque to another mosque, then again to another.

Directors of GPoT Center, Prof. Dr. Mensur Akgün and Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki, together with Dr. Mesut Özcan, Deputy Chairman of the Centre for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, and Doc. Dr. Şaban Kardaş of the TOBB University, were part of the Turkish academic delegation visiting various institutes and governmental bodies in Ottawa and Toronto between October 7-8, 2013.

İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi Küresel Siyasal Eğilimler Merkezi (GPoT) ve Munathara İnisiyatifi tarafından ortaklaşa düzenlenen, "Yabancı Müdahale Suriye için Geriye Kalan Tek Seçenek mi?" konulu canlı tartışmada Suriyeliler Suriye’yi tartıştı. Yabancı askeri müdahaleyi savunanlar ile buna karşı çıkan Suriyeliler’i tartışmasında ilginç yaklaşımlar dikkat çekti.

GPoT Center's deputy director Sylvia Tiryaki participated as a speaker during the Young Diplomats Forum, organized by the Global Diplomatic Forum from the 2nd to the 6th of September, at the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, Ankara.

Sylvia Tiryaki delivered a speech in the panel 'EU-Turkey Relations: Opportunities and Challenges', addressing questions of Turkey's role in the EU enlargement process and Turkey's EU-accession.

Spojené státy zvažují útok na syrské cíle. Oslovili jsme s několika otázkami arabisty a blízkovýchodní specialisty. Přehled jejich názorů na situaci v současné dění v Sýrii budeme postupně níže zveřejňovat. V článku najdete i odkazy na další komentáře - české i zahraniční.

The Munathara Initiative, alongside the Global Political Trends Center (GPoT) and IREX, are calling on young Syrians to make their voices heard by submitting a short video detailing their visions for Syria’s future.

Ten winners will be determined through an online vote and will be 

brought to Istanbul Kultur University to participate in a workshop and 

debate on September 16 through 18.