The Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) and Istanbul Policy Center of Sabanci University are pleased to invite you to a rountable titled ‘Post-Election Turkey’ on 18 November 2015 (11am-1pm) with keynote speakers:
Prof Fuat Keyman, Director of Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University
Dr Izak Atiyas is Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center and Professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He is Director of TÜSİAD-Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum since January 2011.
Lord Peter Hain, Former Labour MP between 1991 and 2015 and former senior minister for twelve years in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s governments
Please see speaker biographies below.
Baroness Jan Royall will kindly chair this roundtable.
This will be an exclusive roundtable with a small number of people. Please email info@ceftus.org to reserve your seat.
The event will take place between 11am and 1pm on 18 November 2015, in Committee Room 16, in the House of Commons. Please note security checks are required to enter Portcullis House. We kindly ask you to arrive at 10.45am to allow the event to start and end on time.
This event is kindly hosted by Keith Vaz MP.
CEFTUS and IPC are organiseing two consecutive meetings in London and in Istanbul on “Post-Election Turkey.” The meetings with expert panels will elaborate on Turkey’s domestic dynamics and foreign policy following 1st November 2015 General Elections.
We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Speaker Biographies
Professor Fuat Keyman is Director of Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University. Keyman is a leading Turkish political scientist and an expert on democratization, globalization, international relations, Turkey – EU relations, Turkish foreign policy, and civil society development.
Dr Izak Atiyas is Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center and Professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He is Director of TÜSİAD-Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum since January 2011. Atiyas currently works on good governance, corruption, productivity, industrial policy, competition policy, regulation of network industries and privatisation.
Lord Peter Hain was a Labour MP for Neath between 1991 and 2015. He was a senior minister for twelve years in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s governments, where he served as Secretary of State for Wales and Northern Ireland, as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and as Leader of the Commons. He was also Europe Minister, Foreign Minister and Energy Minister. He chaired the UN Security Council, and negotiated international Treaties curbing nuclear proliferation and banning the conflict-inducing trade in blood diamonds.