Insight Turkey Annual Conference: Debating New Turkey
Program
9:45-10:00 – Registration
10:00-10:15 – Introductory Remarks
Ihsan Dagi (Insight Turkey)
Nuh Yilmaz (SETA DC)
10:15-12:00 – Panel I: Turkish Politics: Quo Vadis?
Moderator: David Cuthell (Institute of Turkish Studies)
Speakers:
Levent Koker (Atilim University), “Why Turkey Needs a New Constitution”
Taha Ozhan (SETA Foundation), “Democratic Opening”
Dilek Cindoglu (Columbia University), “Women and Secularism: the Headscarf Ban in Turkey”
Ersel Aydinli (Bilkent University) , “Transformation of Civil-Military Relations in Turkey”
12:00 – 1:30 – Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:15 – Panel II: Turkey’s New Regional Activism
Moderator: Kadir Ustun (SETA DC)
Speakers:
Ibrahim Kalin (Chief Advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey), “Recent Developments in Turkish Foreign Policy: An Assessment”
Amb. Hajrudin Somun (Philip Noel-Baker International University), “The Balkan Interpretations of Turkish Regional Policy”
Trita Parsi (National Iranian American Council), “Turkey-Iran Relations post-Tehran Declaration”
Amjad Atallah (New America Foundation), “Turkey and the Middle East Vacuum”
3:15 – 3:30 – Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 – Panel III: Turkish-American Partnership
Moderator: Saban Kardas (TOBB University)
Speakers:
Nuh Yilmaz (Director, SETA DC), “From Strategic to Model Partnership”
Omer Taspinar (Brookings Institution), “From Strategic to Transactional Partnership?”
Stephen Larrabee (RAND Corporation), “A Troubled Partnership in Deeper Trouble?”
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