GPoT Center accompanied six Turkish students during their trip with the Youth Exchange Program under the "Dialogue Building Between Turkey and Armenia" Project. The Turkish participants attended a one-week-long training on documentary film co-production which was organized by Internews Armenia in Yerevan.
On the first day of the training, after touring the main sights of Yerevan, students participated in a lecture, given by Ambassador Dr. David Hovhannisyan, on stereotypes in Armenian and Turkish societies, which was followed by a welcoming dinner.
The Deputy Director of GPoT Center, Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki, together with the Director of GPoT Center, Dr. Mensur Akgün, participated in an international conference organized by IPSA (International Political Science Association) and ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research).
A panel and a press conference was organized by TESEV on February 2nd, 2011.
At the conference, the report entitled "The Perceptions of Turkey in the Middle East" was presented. The report was written by the Director of GPoT Center Dr. Mensur Akgün together with Sabiha Senyücek Gündoğar, Jonathan Levack and Gökçe Perçinoğlu and can be dowloaded here.
EuroMeSCo is a network of thirty-nine member-countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), i.e. the EU's comprehensive policy for its relations with the Southern Mediterranean region.
The network's activities are policy and security-oriented research and debates.
GPoT Center is proud to be part of one of EuroMeSCo's new governing bodies, i.e. the Steering Committee, together with the following institutions:
GPoT Center participated in the Turkey and Armenia Non-Governmental Organizations (TANGO) Network Project’s website launch and contact making meeting organized by the Corporate Social Responsibility Association of Turkey (CSR Turkey) and the Armenian Marketing Association (AMA) in Kadir Has University on the 20th of January 2011.
GPoT Center participated in the 7th Forum for the Future's culmination event, the Civil Society and Ministerial Meetings in Doha, Qatar between the 12th and the 14th of January.
GPoT Center hosted Armenian participants of the Project called "Dialogue Building Between Armenia and Turkey" in Istanbul Kültür University on December 20th, 2010.
Dr. Areti Demosthenous, Director of the Institute of Historical Research for Peace based in Nicosia visited GPoT Center on December 10th, 2010.
Dr. Demosthenous delivered a lecture on the Cyprus talks and the latest developments in the property issue. Students from the IR department at Istanbul Kultur University had a chance to share their opinion on the Cyprus question with Dr. Demosthenous and discuss some of the striking issues related to the current Cyprus talks.
Dr. Mensur Akgün, with his colleague Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki, attended the Subministerial Meeting of the Forum for the Future 2010, which was held on November 8th, 2010 in Ottawa, Canada.
Mensur Akgün visited China, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu, who was invited for an official visit by his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi.
The 7-day long visit involved meetings with Chinese officials, a round-table talk with researchers at the China International Research Institute, visits of many cultural sights in the country as well as the closing ceremony of the EXPO fair.