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Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
Asian Voices Seminar
Turkish Foreign Policy to the East: Domestic Drivers and Regional Implications
29 March 2007
Main Speaker:
Mr. Suat Kiniklioglu
Director of The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Ankara
In recent years, new dynamics have dominated Turkey's foreign policy outlook, particularly toward its immediate neighborhood but also beyond it. This is due to a new approach by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) that took office in November 2002. Turkey's new foreign policy outlook toward the East has been conditioned by a distinct desire to play a more central role in that part of the world, but is also perceived as redressing a situation that was abnormal. Turkey's new foreign policy elite has been in search of a more meaningful role in the Middle East and the East in general and is attempting to carve out a new role in these regions. The domestic dynamics of this policy are by and large the product of Turkey's ongoing search for an internal consensus on Turkish identity. Here, the question of Ottoman heritage and what that means in terms of Turkey's policies in the East becomes a central question in Turkey's perennial search for a place in the world.
Date:
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Location:
The Cosmos Club
New Dining Room (Crentz Room)
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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RSVP by Friday, March 23rd,
5:30 p.m. to
seminar@spfusa.org
(tel.) 202-296-6694 ext.102 or
(fax) 202-296-6695
Mr. Suat Kiniklioglu
Director of The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Ankara
Discussants:
Dr. Ian Lesser
Senior Transatlantic Fellow,
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Dr. Pinar Bilgin
Visiting Fellow,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Moderator:
Dr. Charles A. Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
About the Main Speaker
Suat Kiniklioglu was appointed executive director of the German Marshall Fund’s new office in Ankara, Turkey, in 2005. He has a weekly column in the English daily Today's Zaman and is editor of Insight Turkey, a quarterly publication on Turkish foreign policy issues. He previously worked on Black Sea security and strategic issues as a Transatlantic Fellow with the GMF in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kiniklioglu comes to GMF from the Ankara Center for Turkish Policy (ANKAM), where he served as the center’s founding director. Before his recent tenure at ANKAM, Mr. Kiniklioglu worked as a development officer responsible for Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan at the Canadian International Development Agency, based in Ankara. Prior to that, he was a senior political and economic research officer at the Australian Embassy in Turkey. He has also worked as a foreign policy correspondent for the Turkish newspaper Yeni Yuzyil. Mr. Kiniklioglu holds the rank of division/liaison squadron commander in the Turkish Air Force, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Bilkent University. He received a Master of International Relations from Bilkent University and a B.A. in political science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics from the Turkish Air Force Academy in Istanbul. He is fluent in Turkish, English, German, and Azerbaijani, and is proficient in Russian.
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan.
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