Global Political Trends Center (GPoT) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
research institution established under the auspices of Istanbul Kültür
University in 2008.
Our mission is to conduct high quality,
independent and innovative research and education, acting as a link between policy-making institutions, academia, civil society and the
media.
The Center aims to achieve this by routinely bringing
together opinion leaders, government officials and other policy-makers,
analysts and members of the media from Turkey, the region and elsewhere.
Our activities range from conducting projects and research that analyze
the contemporary social, political and economic trends in regional and
international politics and producing policy recommendations,
contributing to public debate through roundtable discussions and
international conferences to publishing policy briefs and monographs,
among others.
In accordance with its mission, GPoT Center has
been active in virtually all fronts concerning not only Turkish foreign
policy but the current regional and international agenda, including
Turkey’s European Union accession process, the Cyprus issue, NATO, the
Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process, issues in the Middle East and
North Africa, national and regional democratization, the Arab-Israeli
Conflict and, most recently, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Having
become one of Turkey’s most active think-tanks in a short amount of
time, GPoT Center conducts these activities either independently or in
partnership with national and international institutions.
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