Dilemmas Ahead For Turkey's Regional Policies, Summer 2008

Friday, September 5, 2008 | Download PDF in English

The ARI Movement’s 10th Annual Security Conference: “Looking Ahead: Managing Turkey’s International Relations in the Coming Decade” took place in Istanbul this past September. It was held in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. This issue of TPQ includes perspectives from a number of the speakers at the conference as well as additional views that complement the analysis of regional developments and Turkey’s positioning.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Nigâr Göksel

D. Nigar Goksel has been Editor-in-Chief of the Istanbul-based Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) since 2002 and Turkey and Cyprus Analyst for Crisis Group's Turkey/Cyprus Project since April 2015. She was Senior Analyst at the European Stability Initiative (ESI) between 2004-11, where she covered Turkey and the Caucasus. In Spring 2014, she joined FRIDE as associate fellow, focusing on the Black Sea region. She is a regular contributor to the German Marshall Fund’s ‘On Turkey’ series and writes frequently for Al Jazeera International. Nigar is also registered as an independent consultant for political analysis and project management. She has designed a range of reconciliation and civil society capacity-building initiatives in Turkey and the South Caucasus.

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