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

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.

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.

Galip Dalay is a consulting fellow at Chatham House, nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, senior advisor at Berghof Foundation, & doctoral researcher at Oxford University. He was previously Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center and at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Robert Bosch Academy. Dalay’s research focuses on Middle Eastern politics, Turkish politics &foreign policy, and history and politics of post-imperial and post-colonial internationalism. His work has also appeared amongst others in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, CNN, Newsweek, Le Monde and Al Jazeera. Galip Dalay is a consulting fellow at Chatham House, nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, senior advisor at Berghof Foundation, & doctoral researcher at Oxford University. He was previously Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center and at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Robert Bosch Academy. Dalay’s research focuses on Middle Eastern politics, Turkish politics &foreign policy, and history and politics of post-imperial and post-colonial internationalism.

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.

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.