Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü was awarded "The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George" by Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom.

The talking points for the meeting of the Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe, hosted by GRF on 8-9 April, 2019, can be found below.

GRF Member, Per. Representative of Turkey to WTO (F) and Director of Trade Studies at TEPAV, Ambassador Bozkurt Aran’s article was published in Turkish Policy Quarterly on March 19, 2019.

GRF Member, Permanent Representative (F) of Turkey to the United Nations and to NATO, Ambassador Ümit Pamir’s interview was published in the daily Hürriyet on September 10, 2018.

GRF Board Member, İşbank CEO, Mr. Adnan Bali’s assessments on the Turkish Economy and the speculative attacks targeting the TL, published by the newspaper Dünya on August 13, 2018.

As NATO prepares for its 11-12 July summit in Brussels – with NATO-Russia relations high on the agenda – and as a Presidential US-Russia summit is due to take place in Finland later this month, there is an urgent need to inject new thinking into the dialogue over how Russia and NATO could safely co-exist and how Europe’s security could be improved as a result.

Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan, was awarded, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves le Drian, the title of “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur”.

GRF Vice-Chairpersons Mrs. Hanzade Doğan Boyner and Mr. Memduh Karakullukçu attended the “Equality and Parity in Science for Peace and Development” at the UN Headquarters

GRF Founding Member, Dr. Fatih Birol was unanimously re-elected as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

GRF Member, Permanent Representative of Turkey to WTO (F), Director of Trade Studies at TEPAV and Board Member at Şişecam, Ambassador (R) Bozkurt Aran’s article was published by the Bretton Woods Committee on December 11, 2017.