Turkey’s regional security environment remains a challenging one as the region’s ongoing conflicts, most notably in Syria, continue to pose security and humanitarian threats. The tensions in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea also pose potential threats to Turkey’s national security objectives. Moreover, Turkey faces internal threats from terrorist organisations which have international links, primarily from FETÖ and the PKK.
This Expert Roundtable session the main tenets of Turkish grand strategy, focusing on Turkey’s national security objectives and related resources.
Moderator: Yusuf Erim, Defence Analyst, TRT World
Experts:
Ersel Aydınlı Professor, Department of International Relations at Bilkent University
Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Chairman, Turkish Grand National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee
Michael Reynolds, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Discussants:
Ali Bakır, Assistant Professor, Ibn Khaldon Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University
Özden Zeynep Oktav, Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University
Tarek Megerisi, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Luke Coffey, Director of Allison Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Anas El Gomati, Founder and Director, Sadeq Institute
Valeria Talbot, Senior Research Fellow; Co-Head of the Middle East and North Africa Centre, ISPI
