Mensur Akgün and Sylvia Tiryaki attended a conference on Security and the Middle East, which took place in Istanbul on October 14th, 2010.

Mensur Akgun, together with Sylvia Tiryaki and other international civil society activists, attended the Gender Institute Consultation Meeting which took place in Abu Dhabi on October 13th, 2010.

The meeting was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the United Arab Emirates.
 

Sylvia Tiryaki was interviewed by Sandra Brankovič from the Radio Slovenia on September 24, 2010.

Sylvia Tiryaki commented on the Turkish referendum in which a package of constitutional changes was approved on September 12, 2010. The interview was aired as part of a longer program and is available in its original Slovenian language here.

Armenia is not only currently looking West, but also enjoys healthy diplomatic relations with some of the world’s major powers, an academic from Yerevan University in Armenia said at a recent seminar in Istanbul.

Political scientists like to call them “frozen conflicts,” Kashmir, Kosovo, Cyprus, the Georgian-Russian standoff, the Caucasus knot of Nagorno-Karabakh and of course the status of Palestine. Such conflicts we report upon regularly.

Geliyorum diyen somut belalara sırt çevirip soyut ıvır zıvırla uğraşma gafletinin en çarpıcı örneği diye, Türkler kenti ele geçirmek üzereyken Bizanslıların yaptığı gösterilir:

Rigid public opinion and a paucity of perspectives in the Armenian and Azerbaijani media landscapes are holding the two former Soviet countries’ relations hostage over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Dr. Mensur Akgün and Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki participated in an international conference entitled “From Aspiration to Reality: Nuclear Disarmament After the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review”.

Özdem Sanberk, GPoT High Advisory Board member, one of the most experienced Turkish diplomats and former Ambassador to the UK, will serve as the Turkish representative on the UN Secretary-General’s inquiry into the Gaza flotilla incident.

The other members of the panel are the former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, serving as chair; the ex-president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe, serving as vice-chair; and Joseph Ciechanover, serving as the Israeli representative.

GPoT Center was accredited as a member of the network of civil society organizations under the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.