INSITER’s academic co-coordinator Ebru Turhan has published a co-authored book chapter entitled “Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Arab Spring: Between Western Orientation and Regional Disorder”, in the edited volume by Bülent Aras and Fuat Keyman “Turkey, the Arab Spring and Beyond” (New York: Routledge). Read more
On December 20, 2016 the first fully revised version of the INSITER webpage has been launched under the domain www.insiter.tau.edu.tr. It is home to information and up-to-date news on the Jean Monnet Module and is meant to be a major communication hub for the dissemination of project activities and results.
In the annual Ankara excursion, which took place within the framework of the INSITER Module, on 12-13 December 2016, the MEIA students visited on their first day the German embassy. The meeting at the German Embassy with Robert Dölger (Charge d’affaires) and Dr. Ralf Matthias Reusch (First Secretary, Political Section) was a long one that enabled the group to ask about various dimensions of Turkish-German-European relations.
The second day started with a meeting at the Middle East Technical University (METU) where our course lecturer Prof. Atila Eralp was able to finish not only his regular class but also to provide the background knowledge on Turkey’s EU membership process. The MEIA delegation was also able to attend a guest talk by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Erdoğan, a leading Turkish migration scholar at the Hacettepe University. In the afternoon the delegation visited the EU delegation and met Gabriel Munuera Vinals, Vice-Head of the European Union Turkey Delegation. After an open discussion (and a nice surprise, as he told that this course’s lecturer Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels was his professor many years ago) the MEIA delegation headed to its last stop, Turkish Ministry of EU Affairs. The students had a briefing on recent developments with regard to Turkey-EU affairs and were able to ask questions on current policy issues. Prof. Eralp from METU was with the delegation in all these meetings and played a major role in their organization. On the night of this second day the MEIA delegation arrived back at the Turkish-German University.
You can read the program here.
On December 12-13, 2016 the students of the Turkish-German University’s Master programme “European and International Affairs” went on a research and study trip to Ankara to gather first-hand insights into real-life policy making and diplomacy. Read more here.
On November 24, 2016 the first meeting of the INSITER Advisory Board took place in the premises of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul. The meeting served the purpose to jointly review preparatory work of the project team as well as a general planning for the upcoming project year.
On November 22, 2016 the public roundtable discussion „Changing the Map. The European Council’s role in Turkey’s accession process and Brexit” took place at the Turkish-German Univ
ersity in cooperation with the SUMMIT Project of the University of Cologne. Moderated by Asst. Prof. Dr. Deniz Kuru, member of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels (Senior INSITER Scholar, CETEUS / University of Cologne) and Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Turhan (INSITER academic co-coordinator) discussed the role of the European Council in view of both the enlargement of the European Union as well as the Brexit process. Read More
The Turkish-German University is proud to announce the positive evaluation by the European Commission of the project application by Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Turhan and Asst. Prof. Dr. Wulf Reiners for the Jean Monnet Module “INSITER – Inside the Turkey-EU Relations” for funding in the framework of the ERASMUS+ programme. The project will run under the grant agreement number “575084-EPP-1-2016-1-TR-EPPJMO-MODULE” from September 1, 2016 until August 31, 2019. Find the official selection results here.