© picture alliance / AA | Dursun Aydemir
© picture alliance / AA | Dursun Aydemir
This project examines Turkey's evolving relationship with Iraq, focusing on security, water management, and economic reconstruction. It explores Turkey's strategic objectives, Iraqi responses, and the broader implications for regional stability and Turkey-EU relations, providing insights for policymakers.
This project examines Turkey´s evolving relations with iran through Iraqi, Syrian, and Kurdish politics, focusing on their approach to regional connectivity, major initiatives, and the impact of ongoing developments like the war in Gaza on EU, US, and UK security policies.
This project explores how political and ideological influences shape youth values, how young people view democracy, and whether their stances are flexible or rigid across various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. As nationalist, conservative, and authoritarian narratives become more dominant, youth responses to these shifts hold important implications for Turkey’s future direction.
The project analyses Turkey's regional peacebuilding interventions, focusing on how its methods in conflicts, such as those in Palestine, Syria, and Iraq, influence local and regional authoritarianism, impact humanitarian efforts, and shape the emerging Middle Eastern security order, with policy recommendations for European and British collaboration with Turkey.
This project explores the nature of Turkey's efforts to balance integration with Western institutions, particularly the EU, with the simultaneous pursuit of closer cooperation with Russia and China in the aftermath of the domestic presidential transition, as well as the global pandemic and ongoing regional wars.
The project explores opportunities for enhancing cooperation between Turkey and European countries in the new security environment that has emerged after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This project will explore prospects for cooperation and competition between the European and Turkish defence industries, and the impact of defence industrial relations on the foreign policies of Turkey, the European Union (EU), and selected non-EU European countries.
This project is a study of the political feasibility of the UNDP’s Türkiye Compact. Specifically, the aim of the project is to determine the prospects of the EU, the UK and Switzerland adopting and implementing the Compact.