Turkey, the Region and U.S.-Turkey Relations: Assessing the Challenges and Prospects

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Event Summary

Turkey has weathered exceptionally turbulent times in recent years and continues to face serious domestic and foreign policy challenges. Following the so-called “e-coup” warning of a possible military intervention, civil-military tensions climaxed during the summer of 2007. A year later, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government was nearly shut down by the Constitutional Court. The AKP’s landslide electoral victory in July 2007 was followed by another crisis over the presidency. In addition, PKK extremist attacks have been sharply on the rise. How should the next U.S. administration manage Turkish-U.S. relations? Where is Turkish domestic politics going? What is Turkey’s foreign policy outlook?

Event Information

When

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Where

Multi-Purpose Room
University of California Washington Center
1608 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
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Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

On October 28, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe and the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research will host a conference to examine Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy challenges and prospects. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Ahmet Davutoglu, chief foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. After the keynote address, Ibrahim Kalin, founding director of SETA; Nonresident Fellow Omer Taspinar, director of the Turkey Project at Brookings; Visiting Fellow Mark Parris, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey; and Talha Kose of George Mason University will moderate a series of discussions featuring a distinguished group of Turkish and American experts, officials and scholars.

After each panel, participants will take audience questions. A buffet lunch will be served from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m.

Participants

9:00 am — Welcome and Opening Remarks

Omer Taspinar

Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy

Ibrahim Kalin

SETA

9:15 am — Keynote Address

Ahmet Davutoglu

Chief Advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Republic of Turkey

10:45 am — Panel One: U.S-Turkish Relations: What Will the New President Bring to the Table?

Moderator: Mark R. Parris

Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy

Cengiz Candar

Radikal (Turkey)

Ian Lesser

German Marshall Fund

Suat Kiniklioglu

Member of Turkish Parliament

1:00 pm — Panel Two: Turkey’s Challenges and Opportunities and Its Region: Iraq, Iran, the Caucasus and the EU Process

Moderator: Talha Kose

George Mason University

Steven Cook

Council on Foreign Relations

Kemal Kirisci

Bogazici University and Carleton University

Taha Ozhan

SETA

3:00 pm — Panel Three: The Domestic Scene: The Continuing Battle for Turkey’s Soul

Moderator: Ibrahim Kalin

SETA

Mustafa Akyol

Turkish Daily News

Bulent Ali Riza

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Omer Taspinar

Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy

4:45 pm — Closing Remarks<!–

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