CDP Turkey hosts 11th Climate Change Conference
TEPAV’s Güven Sak joins panel discussion, “The role of markets & public policies to reach net-zero” 03/04/2021 - The CDP Turkey’s 11th Climate Change Conference was held virtually on Wednesday March 31st, 2021. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) aims to disclose companies’ Green initiatives from across the world to investors in parallel to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Since 2011, CDP’s Turkey branch, in partnership with Sabanci University’s Corporate Governance Forum, has been hosting an annual conference with regards to their findings on Turkish companies’ Green initiatives. Opening remarks of the conference were made by Mirhan Koroglu Gogus, CDP’s Turkey Country Projects Manager. Gogus underlined that global cooperation in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic must also be applied to tackling climate change and that, despite t [More]
GMFUS panel discuses Migration Deal
TEPAV Policy Analyst Omar Kadkoy joins GMFUS panel discussion, “Where Are We Five Years After The EU-Turkey Migration Deal?” 28/03/2021 - Five years ago, the EU and Turkey reached a controversial agreement tackling the issue of irregular migration flows over the Aegean. Envisioned as a joint coordination mechanism, the EU pledged 6 billion euros to Turkey to assist the millions of forcibly displaced in the country in exchange for the latter curbing the migrant movement to Europe. On the 5th anniversary of the Migration Deal, to discuss the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Turkey, the EU migration policy, and the possibilities for continued cooperation between the EU and Turkey, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) organized a virtual panel titled, “Where Are We Five Years after the EU-Turkey Migration Deal?" Moderated by GMF-TOBB Senior Fel [More]
EU-Turkey High Level Business Dialogue
"EU-Turkey High Level Business Dialogue – EU Green Deal" meeting held on March 10-11, 2021, via virtual video conference. 28/03/2021 - A two-day virtual video conference, the “EU-Turkey High Level Business Dialogue,” initiated on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, between the President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) and Vice President of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES), M. Rifat Hisarciklioglu; EUROCHAMBRES President, Christoph Leitl; Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Turkey, Ambassador Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut; Deputy Minister of Commerce, Gonca Yilmaz Batur; and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director of EU Affairs, Ambassador Faruk Kaymakci. M. Rifat Hisarciklioglu underlined that the Green Deal and green economy is a new model for Turkey's growth and transformation. He beg [More]
TURKEY-EU RELATIONS BEFORE THE MARCH SUMMIT: THE WAY FORWARD?
Policy Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp, Senem Aydın Düzgit, Atila Eralp, E. Fuat Keyman, Çiğdem Nas 24/03/2021 - The tension in Turkey-EU relations subsided towards the end of 2020 with the Turkish government’s positive messages of engagement with the EU and its signals towards moderation on the Eastern Mediterranean agenda. This led the last summit of the EU leaders on 9-10 December 2020 to decide for an extension of the specific sanctions list which was adopted a year before, rather than adopt for more comprehensive sanctions towards Turkey. In the same summit, the High Representative Joseph Borrell and the Commission were given the task to prepare a report on instruments and options regarding how to proceed after an analysis of different aspects of the current relations. This report which will be submitted at [More]
Turkey-U.S. Relations in the Changing Transatlantic Context
Policy Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp, Senem Aydın Düzgit, Atila Eralp, E. Fuat Keyman, Çiğdem Nas 04/02/2021 - As Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States, the country entered a new era of restoration both at home and abroad. U.S. foreign policy is not immune to this period of change. America’s re-joining of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Accord immediately after Biden’s inauguration as well as the reactions of top officials in the Biden administration to Alexei Navalny’s arrest in Russia are early testaments to the emerging characteristics of the new U.S. foreign policy under Biden. We argue in this paper that these characteristics will have a defining impact on the shape and nature of transatlantic relations as well as on U.S. relations with Turkey. U.S. Foreign Policy under the Biden Administrati [More]
A case for a key country: Turkey in Europe and beyond Evaluation Note/ N. Murat Ersavcı
28/01/2021
“Peace at home, peace in the world” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
This seemingly straightforward and powerful maxim still constitutes the main pillar of the Turkish Foreign Policy, which has always been peaceful, realistic and consistent. Why suc
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2020’s Most Read Top 15 most viewed content on TEPAV’s website
06/01/2021
The year 2020 was a year unlike any other. Due to being caught off-guard by the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the notes, blogs and news headlines featured on the TEPAV website divulged about the coronavirus, social distancing, and the economic e
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Alleviating COVID-19 Misery of the Forcibly Displaced: G20 Action Evaluation Note/ Güven Sak, Omar Kadkoy
31/12/2020
The world is now engaged in containing the COVID-19 breakout and its consequences. In the age of Coronavirus, however, forcibly displaced people should not be left behind: Of the world’s 79.5 million forcibly displaced, out of whom 45.7 milli
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COVID-19,
Time for a Positive Agenda in EU-Turkey Relations: Start with a Green Deal Turkey BBI InBrief / Güven SAK
22/12/2020
Turkey-EU relation is similar to that of a marriage, complex. Nevertheless, instead of finger pointing and playing a guessing game the two entities need more dialogue and bilateral engagement. In terms of both security and economy Turkey is a
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Green Deal,
“The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene” The UNDP’s 2020 Human Development Report was announced in cooperation with UNDP, TEPAV, Habitat Association, and INGEV.
19/12/2020
The United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Human Development Report is published every year since 1990. This year’s 2020 portion on Turkey was announced at an event in partnership with UNDP, TEPAV, the Habitat Association, and the Human
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HDR, Human Development Report,
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