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Dinner with Mr. Larry Kramer, President of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Dean of Stanford Law School (F)
Friday, June 21, 2019
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GRF Middle East and North Africa Task Force Report Launch
Thursday, June 20, 2019
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GRF Young Professionals Program 2018 – 2019 Term Third Meetings
Saturday, June 15, 2019
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GRF Young Scholars Program Second Round Meetings of the 2018 Term (Second Group)
Monday, June 10, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Mr. Memduh Karakullukçu, Vice-Chairman and President of GRF
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Prof. Üstün Ergüder, Chairman of the Executive Board at Education Reform Initiative (ERI)
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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GRF Global Trade and Turkey in the 21st Century Task Force Report Ankara Launch
Friday, April 26, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Mr. Tayfun Bayazıt, Founder & President of Bayazıt Management and Consulting Services
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
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Roundtable with H.E. Ambassador Rakesh Sood, Former Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues and Former Ambassador to Afghanistan, Nepal and France
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
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GRF and European Leadership Network (ELN) Meeting of the “Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe” on Cyber, Space and LAWS
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Sir Adam Thomson, Director of the European Leadership Network (ELN)
Monday, April 8, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Ambassador Christian Berger, Head of the European Union (EU) Turkey Delegation
Friday, March 22, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Ambassador Yaşar Yakış, Minister of Foreign Affairs (F) and Ambassador
Friday, March 15, 2019
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GRF Young Academics Program 2019 Term First Stage Meeting
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
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Roundtable with Prof. Paul Collier, Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank (F) and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government
Monday, March 11, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, Former Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Monday, March 4, 2019
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Roundtable with Ambassador Faruk Kaymakçı, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director for EU Affairs
Friday, March 1, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Prof. Mustafa Aydın, Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University and President of the International Relations Council of Turkey
Thursday, February 28, 2019
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GRF Global Trade and Turkey in the 21st Century Task Force Report Launch
Friday, February 22, 2019
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GRF Young Professionals Program 2018 – 2019 Term Second Meetings
Saturday, February 16, 2019
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Roundtable Meeting with Prof. Feride Acar, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Administration at METU and President of the Group of Experts on Action Against Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO)
Friday, February 15, 2019
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Ceremony and Dinner for Mr. Sami Kohen’s GRF Honorary Membership Award
Thursday, February 14, 2019
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GRF’s 11th General Assembly
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Food for Thought & News from GRF
GRF Board Member Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü Awarded with "The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George" Honorary Award
11.09.2019
Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü was awarded "The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George" by Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom.
European Think Tanks Reflect on the Challenges of Emerging Military Technologies
28.05.2019
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.
Excerpt from Per. Representative of Turkey to WTO (F) and Director of Trade Studies at TEPAV, Ambassador Bozkurt Aran’s Article About Trump’s Trade Wars on Turkish Policy Quarterly
25.03.2019
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.
Excerpt from Permanent Representative (F) of Turkey to the United Nations and to NATO, Ambassador Ümit Pamir’s Interview with Daily Hürriyet
17.09.2018
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
20.08.2018
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.
The Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe’s Position Paper Entitled “Towards a NATO-Russia Basic Understanding” Has Been Published
10.07.2018
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.
GRF Board Member Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan Awarded with the French “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur"
25.03.2018
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-Chairperson Mrs. Hanzade Doğan Boyner Delivers a Speech at the UN during the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
09.02.2018
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
Dr. Fatih Birol Re-elected as the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA)
29.01.2018
GRF Founding Member, Dr. Fatih Birol was unanimously re-elected as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Article from Permanent Representative of Turkey to WTO (F), Director of Trade Studies at TEPAV and Board Member at Şişecam, Ambassador (R) Bozkurt Aran, published by the Bretton Woods Comittee
08.12.2017
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.
Task Forces GRF Task Forces strive to make balanced judgments on matters that involve medium to long-term uncertainty as well as propose clear strategies and policy recommendations for Turkey in light of these judgments.
Track-II StudiesGRF Track-II Studies involve contacts and consultation processes with high-level individuals of another country to carry the official dialogue between the two countries to the level of civil society. The aim is to contribute to foreign policy processes and public diplomacy through in-depth exchanges on issues touching upon bilateral relations.
International DialoguesInternational Dialogues involve the establishment of issue-based partnerships with organizations and individuals from around the world whose values, objectives and areas of focus coincide with those of GRF.
GRF Young Scholars ProgramRegrettably, we will not be taking applications for the Young Scholars Program’s June 2019 term
GRF Young Academics ProgramThe GRF Young Academics Program is designed for young academics who are either pursuing or have completed their PhDs within the last three years.
GRF Young Professionals ProgramParticipants of the GRF Young Professionals Program are expected to have four years of work experience, and to be no older than 38. The program brings together individuals for whom it is second nature to think comprehensively, to share their opinions with modesty, and to consider the opinions of others with curiosity.
GRF Young Global ProgramThe participants of the program are individuals who have successfully completed GRF’s Young Scholars and Young Scholars Abroad programs, and international participants from the leading universities of the world who were nominated by Young Scholars.