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The ASPEN European Dialogue Conference was held on March 4-5 in Istanbul
Kemal Derviş was at Leaders of Change Summit 2011
IPC Karaköy headquaters opening reception
Young Turkey/Young America Exchange Program's USA Study Tour has started

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Blogs, Conference Summaries, Reviews

A summary of the conference titled: "The IPC‐Bruegel Dialogue on the Future of the Euro Zone", by Berfu Kızıltan and Derya Lawrence. Click here to read the report.
A compelling summary and review of the IPC book launch featuring Cengiz Aktar's recent book on the Ecumenical Patriarchate by Derya Lawrence. Click here to read the event summary and review.

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The IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative now accepts applications for the Mercator - IPC Fellowship. Apply here.

IPC and the Hrant Dink Foundation to host renowned academic and public intellectual Timothy Garton Ash on a panel discussion, "Free Speech in Turkey and the World," April 5, 2012. Click for the flyer.

Fuat Keyman addressed a select group of EU Ambassadors on IPC's constitutional reform initiative, March 26, 2012. Click to read more...

"Turkish Modernization and Strategic Choices"
The new IPC report on Turkey's energy security and economic growth strategies lays out the formidable challenges facing sustainable economic growth, energy sector, and institutional maturity in Turkey. It offers a set of policy recommendations to overcome them. Please click here to read the entire report.

IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative Inaugural Event
The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative inaugurated its programs with a thought-provoking panel discussion on “The Policy Challenges for Europe” on February 1, 2012 at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan, İstanbul. With the participation of such distinguished guests as Kemal Derviş and Daniel Gros, the event also kicked off the Initiative’s partnership with the Centre for European Policy Center in Brussels on EU-Turkey relations. The 150 guests who attended the opening had the distinct opportunity of learning about the key pillars of the five-year strategic partnership between Istanbul Policy Center and Stiftung Mercator and the indispensable work it will perform on climate change, EU/Germany-Turkey relations and education.

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Events

Panel discussion on "Free Speech in Turkey and the World," with an introduction by Timothy Garton Ash. Thursday, April 5, 2012.

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Publications

Reports

Fuat Keyman and Özge Kemahlıoğlu, "The Perception of Democracy in Turkey," May 2011 (available only in Turkish).
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu and Ali Çarkoğlu, "Environment in Turkey 2010," May 2011 (available only in Turkish).

Opeds

Joost Lagendijk, "A blessing in disguise", Today's Zaman, October 18, 2011
Fuat Keyman, "Kürt sorunu ve müzakere", Radikal İki, October 16, 2011

Articles

E. Fuat Keyman, "Modernization, Globalization and Democratization in Turkey: The AKP Experience and its Limits," Constellations, 17 (2010): 312-327.
E. Fuat Keyman, "The CHP and the 'Democratic Opening': Reactions to the AK Party's Electoral Hegemony," Insight Turkey, 12 (2010): 91-108.

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Istanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University is an independent policy research institute with global outreach. Our mission is to foster academic research in social sciences and its application to policy making. We are firmly committed to providing decision-makers, opinion leaders, academics, and general public with innovative and objective analyses in key domestic and foreign policy issues. IPC has expertise in a wide range of areas, including—but not exhaustive to—Turkey-EU-U.S. relations, current trends of political and social transformation in Turkey, as well as the impact of civil society and local governance on this metamorphosis.