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Still candidate for EU membership and major ally to envision a long-term stabilization in the Middle East, Turkey seems weakened by internal flaws and threatened by spreading regional conflicts. Two weeks after a tense legislative scrutiny, what are the political and economical perspectives for this key country?
Ifri’s Contemporary Turkey Programme offers you an insight on the political dynamics of the past year and the imminent challenges which the new government will have to deal with.
Program
Keynote speech
Zafer SIRAKAYA, Chairman, Representative Office of the AKP, Brussels
1st Roundtable: The meaning of the election. Voting, results and the political balance of power
A civil society view on the polling process
Zeynep SANIGÖK, Secretary General of “Oy ve Ötesi”, a collective of civil society observers
Voting in Adiyaman
Pascal TORRE, Lecturer at ENA, member of the Commission for international relations of the PCF sent to Adiyaman within this framework to witness the election
Summer-Fall 2015: elections in the AKP power strategy
Menderes ÇINAR, Professor of political science and international relations, Baskent University, Ankara
Where is the opposition in Turkey?
Ahmet INSEL, economist, editor, essayist, author of La nouvelle Turquie d’Erdoğan
2nd Roundtable: Outlooks and challenges
Middle-East: the Turkish diplomatic outlook
Saban KARDAŞ, Associate professor in international relations, TOBB University, Ankara
The state of Turkish economy
Esen ÇAĞLAR, Deputy Managing Director of the think tank TEPAV, Ankara
Freedom and the regime
Kadri GÜRSEL, columnist, Al-monitor
Presidency
Dorothée SCHMID, Responsible for the Contemporary Turkey program, Ifri
Une traduction simultanée anglais-français sera disponible
A translation into English will be provided
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