Turkish Foreign Policy

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New road map for Turkish foreign policy
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mayıs, 2019

23mayıs09:00- 18:30Cultivating Turkey’s NATO Alliance Alive: Evolving Relations and Diverging Priorities Workshop

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Etkinlik Detayı

SYNOPSIS

Ever since its accession to the Alliance, NATO has been central to Turkey’s collective security and defense perceptions. Thus, as the SETA Security Studies department, we acknowledge the importance of strengthening NATO-Turkey relations in the current security environment troubled by a wide range of raging threats and complex issues today.

Cultivating Turkey’s NATO Alliance Alive: Evolving Relations and Diverging Priorities Workshop aims to provoke debate among the Turkish intellectuals and security practitioners on a wide range of matters that concern Turkey-NATO cooperation. Furthermore, it envisions to increase the understanding of the current state of the Turkey-NATO affairs from both NATO and Turkish perspectives.

The workshop is open to all the professionals in the security, defense and international relations fields.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Welcoming Remarks

Prof. Burhanettin Duran, General Coordinator of SETA.

Keynote Speech

Ambassador Tacan İldem, Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

Session 1: Unity and Solidarity in the Alliance: A Turkish Perspective

Session 2: Enhancing Collective Security through NATO: Current Dynamics

Session 3: NATO’s Evolving Role in the Regional and Global Security Environments

Zaman

(Perşembe) 09:00 - 18:30

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Sheraton Ankara Hotel & Convention Center

Kavaklıdere Mahallesi, Şehit Ömer Haluk Sipahioğlu Sk., 06700 Çankaya/Ankara

Konuşmacılar (Birden fazla konuşmacı varsa varsa alt alta yazınız)

Welcoming Remarks

Prof. Burhanettin Duran, General Coordinator of SETA.

Keynote Speech

Ambassador Tacan İldem, Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

24mayıs14:30- 16:30Panel: Global Armament and Military Spending Trends

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Etkinlik Detayı

The changes and shifts in the armament trends and military expenditures have been among the main factors that shape the international security landscape. In recent years, it has been observed that both global military spending and international arms trade have steadily increased. The fact that China’s military spending increased by 83 percent between 2009-2018, and that the United States increased its military spending for the first time in seven years, led some to conclude that the great power competition is back. In the regional sense, it is likely that Turkey’s increasing military expenditure and its looming indigenous defense industry, as well as the significant amount of arms purchases by certain Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar will be followed by strategic implications. Both the international and regional aspects of arms sales and military spending trends demonstrate that increased uncertainty and insecurity along with sophisticated threats are the major factors that carry the risk of undermining stability within the international system, hence increasing the importance of the subject in question.

You are cordially invited to the Global Armament and Military Spending Trends panel where Siemon T. Wezeman, senior researcher at SIPRI, will discuss all these matters

Note: The panel will be held in English and simultaneous translation services to Turkish will be provided.

Zaman

(Cuma) 14:30 - 16:30

Moderatörler (Birden fazla moderatör varsa alt alta yazınız)

Moderator: Murat Yeşiltaş, SETA

Konuşmacılar (Birden fazla konuşmacı varsa varsa alt alta yazınız)

Siemon T. Wezeman, Senior Researcher at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

27mayıs18:30- 20:30Panel: “Turkey-NATO relations and the future of NATO’’ | SETA Brussels

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Etkinlik Detayı

On 27th of May 2019, SETA Brussels will organize a panel titled ’’Turkey-NATO relations and the future of NATO’’ in Brussels. The panel will draw attention to the current developments concerning Turkey-NATO relations, the current course of transatlantic relations, S-400 and F-35 tensions and the future of the alliance.

The panel will be opened by the keynote speech of the Permanent Representative of Turkey to NATO, Mr Ambassador Basat Öztürk. Dr. Enes Bayraklı, Coordinator of SETA Brussels will moderate the panel. The panelists include Dr. Ian Lesser, Executive Director of German Marshall Fund Brussels, Associate Professor Aylin Ünver Noi, İstinye University and Associate Professor Hasan Basri Yalçın, Director of Strategic Studies at SETA foundation.

Note: The panel will be held in English. Registrations for the event are open until 26th of May 2019 and registrations are available via the e-mail brussels@setav.org The number of participants is limited.