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Turkey’s New and Emerging Security Threats

Mon. February 27th, 2012
Istanbul

IMGXYZ3722IMGZYXAs Turkey’s regional role evolves, so does its relationship with neighbors and in turn, its security challenges. The situation in Syria threatens Turkey’s stability and Turkish policy makers are striving to prevent the country’s implosion and descent into civil war. The nuclear threat from Iran challenges regional security and local actors look to Turkey and Western actors like NATO for guidance.

Carnegie Europe and Ekonomi ve Dış Politika Araştırmalar Merkezi (EDAM) organized a discussion of these issues in Istanbul, as the second of two one-day roundtable conferences in the “NATO's Future Role in the Middle East – the Turkish Perspective” initiative. Twenty-five experts on NATO, Turkey, and the Middle East explored the present day value of NATO for Turkey’s security and examined NATO’s potential role in the region in the context of the Arab Spring. The initiative was sponsored by NATO’s Public Policy Division.

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event speakers

Gülnur Aybet

Stefanie Babst

NATO

Stefanie Babst is a strategic advisor and former NATO deputy assistant secretary general. She is also the author of the book Sehenden Auges: Mut zum strategischen Kurswechsel.

Lizza Bomassi

Deputy Director, Carnegie Europe

Lizza Bomassi was the deputy director of Carnegie Europe.

Fatih Ceylan

Knut Kirste

Paul Schulte

Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program

Schulte was a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

Sinan Ülgen

Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe

Ülgen is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on Turkish foreign policy, transatlantic relations, international trade, economic security, and digital policy.