Ebru Turhan from @tauedutrde receives the Teaching Award for her Jean Monnet Module INSISTER “Inside the Turkey-EU Relations (2016-2019)” at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul
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.@gtsourapas from @unibirmingham receives the Research Award in the category ‘People’ for his work on ‘The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey,’ in @Journal_of_GSS
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Join us to discuss the topic "Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Bridge-Building in EU-Turkey Relations" with Bernard Brunet, Fuat Keyman, @FundaTekin17, and @ilketoygur
Our moderator @ilketoygur from @rielcano begins the debate by setting the scene of EU-Turkey relations in the context of current crises in the Mediterranean, recent developments demonstrating an unsustainable scenario, and the current "watershed moment"
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.@FundaTekin17 welcomes our broad audience to the conference: "The VIADUCT Network consists of 40 partner institutes and deals with EU-Turkey relations. Today we take stock of our activities over the last three years"
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Prof. Wolfgang Wessels from @UniCologne will soon introduce our Keynote speakers: @aneichhorst from @eu_eeas, the Managing Director for Western Europe, Western Balkans, Turkey and United Kingdom
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"I didn't think sanctions would be the EU's primary option, so in my view the summit declarations are a mid-way formula to save time until the winter, giving Turkey time to reassess its position and negotiate, and giving Europe much needed flexibility"