TURKEY’S TRIALS AND ERRORS (©ICG)

ZOOM Live Talk/Facebook Live
In cooperation with Global Relations Forum

On the making of a regional power, the costs of undercutting dialogue with hard-power moves, the imperative of undergoing reforms at home, and what can be done to revive Turkey’s EU accession process. 

Ambassador Selim Yenel, Turkish ambassador to the EU until 2017 and now president of the Istanbul-based think-tank Global Relations Forum, on of what is driving Ankara in a changing world.

While the world in general, Europe and the core NATO countries, are relieved by Joe Biden’s election, there remain some serious problems that will present the new administration with early foreign policy challenges. Turkey itself poses a myriad of additional challenges; ranging from the aquisition of Russian made S-400 missiles (which the US Congress is intent on applying sanctions for), to involvement in Northern Syria, mounting tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean and Erdogan’s intent on pushing the boundaries of foreign policy activism.

Join Selim Yenel and Walter Posch in their talk on the making of a regional power, the costs of undercutting dialogue with hard-power moves, the imperative of undergoing reforms at home, and what can be done to revive Turkey’s EU accession process

Selim Yenel, President of Global Relations Forum, Istanbul
Moderation: Walter Posch, Senior Fellow Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management (IFK)