Insight Turkey Annual Conference:

"Debating New Turkey"

9:45-10:00 - Registration

10:00-10:15 - Introductory Remarks

Ihsan Dagi (Insight Turkey)

Nuh Yilmaz (SETA DC)

10:15-12:00 - Panel I: Turkish Politics: Quo Vadis?

Moderator:

David Cuthell (Institute of Turkish Studies)

Speakers:

Levent Koker (Atilim University), "Why Turkey Needs a New Constitution"

Taha Ozhan (SETA Foundation), "Democratic Opening"

Dilek Cindoglu (Columbia University), "Women and Secularism: the Headscarf Ban in Turkey"

Ersel Aydinli (Bilkent University) , "Transformation of Civil-Military Relations in Turkey"

12:00 - 1:30 - Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:15 - Panel II: Turkey's New Regional Activism

Moderator:

Kadir Ustun (SETA DC)

Ibrahim Kalin (Chief Advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey), "Recent Developments in Turkish Foreign Policy: An Assessment"

Amb. Hajrudin Somun (Philip Noel-Baker International University), "The Balkan Interpretations of Turkish Regional Policy"

Trita Parsi (National Iranian American Council), "Turkey-Iran Relations post-Tehran Declaration"

Amjad Atallah (New America Foundation), "Turkey and the Middle East Vacuum"

3:15 - 3:30 - Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:00 - Panel III: Turkish-American Partnership

Moderator:

Saban Kardas (TOBB University)

Speakers:

Nuh Yilmaz (Director, SETA DC), "From Strategic to Model Partnership"

Omer Taspinar (Brookings Institution), "From Strategic to Transactional Partnership?"

Stephen Larrabee (RAND Corporation), "A Troubled Partnership in Deeper Trouble?"