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Falling Walls Circle Round Table

Six months after the elections – Turkey’s role on the international arena

Fuat Keyman, Hürcan Asli Aksoy, Ayse Bingöl Demir, Senem Düzgit

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Six months after the elections – Turkey’s role on the international arena – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023

The 2023 parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey raised hopes for a new chapter in the country’s foreign policy and international collaboration. After President Erdogan’s approval of Sweden’s NATO accession, analysts even spoke of a new start for the frozen Turkish-European relations. But how sustainable is this rapprochement? This roundtable discusses the political developments in Turkey after the elections and their implications for Turkey’s role in the world and Turkish-European relations.

Supported by Stiftung Mercator.

Fuat Keyman

Istanbul Policy Center/Sabancı University

Fuat Keyman is Director of the Istanbul Policy Center, the Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Social Impact and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University. He is a member of the Turkish Science Academy. He has published more than thirty books and hundreds of articles in Turkish and English on globalization, democratization, international relations, Turkey-EU relations, Turkish foreign policy and civil society development. He serves on advisory and editorial boards for a number of respected international and national organizations as well as for academic journals.

Hürcan Asli Aksoy

Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

Hürcan Asli Aksoy is the head of the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the SWP in Berlin. Asli works on different dimensions of Turkey’s domestic politics, Turkey-EU relations, and Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa. She published on democratization and autocratization, gender and politics, civil society, and women’s movements.

Ayse Bingöl Demir

Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project

Ayşe Bingöl Demir is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law. Following her practice in Turkey between 2003 and 2017, she worked with the legal team of London-based Media Defence until 2019. In collaboration with a group of prominent human rights law practitioners, she founded the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (TLSP) in 2018 under the umbrella of Middlesex University School of Law. Currently based in New York, Ayşe is acting as the Director of the TLSP, a consultant and country expert and carrying out activities on strategic human rights litigation aiming at addressing and countering the emerging human rights crisis in Turkey and beyond.

Senem Düzgit

Sabanci University/Robert Bosch Academy

Senem Aydın-Düzgit is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center. She is currently based at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin as a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow.

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