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?”
The Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) at Washington, D.C. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, independent, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. dedicated to innovative studies on national, regional, and international issues concerning Turkey and US-Turkey relations.