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Ersin Kalaycıoğlu's G.M.F report titled, "Turkey’s views of the European Union in 2011" can be found here.
Istanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University signed Strategic Partnership Agreement with Mercator.
To read about the latest activities of the Young Turkey-Young America Exchange Program, please click here and here.
A new research by IPC Director Fuat Keyman and Sabancı Faculty Member Özge Kemahlıoğlu reveals how constituents view democracy in Turkey. Please click to read the report and its coverage in the Turkish press.
The latest report by Prof. Ersin Kalaycıoğlu (Sabancı University and IPC) and Prof. Ali Çarkoğlu (Koç University) demonstrates the Turkish perception of the pressing environmental issues. Click here to access the study. The report is only available in Turkish at this time.

Blogs, Conference Summaries, Reviews

A summary of the conference titled: "The IPC‐Bruegel Dialogue on the Future of the Euro Zone", by Berfu Kızıltan and Derya Lawrence. Click here to read the report.
A compelling summary and review of the IPC book launch featuring Cengiz Aktar's recent book on the Ecumenical Patriarchate by Derya Lawrence. Click here to read the event summary and review.

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The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative inaugurated its programs with a thought-provoking panel discussion on “The Policy Challenges for Europe” on February 1, 2012 at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan, İstanbul. With the participation of such distinguished guests as Kemal Derviş and Daniel Gros, the event also kicked off the Initiative’s partnership with the Centre for European Policy Center in Brussels on EU-Turkey relations. The 150 guests who attended the opening had the distinct opportunity of learning about the key pillars of the five-year strategic partnership between Istanbul Policy Center and Stiftung Mercator and the indispensable work it will perform on climate change, EU/Germany-Turkey relations and education.

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Publications

Reports

Fuat Keyman and Özge Kemahlıoğlu, "The Perception of Democracy in Turkey," May 2011 (available only in Turkish).
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu and Ali Çarkoğlu, "Environment in Turkey 2010," May 2011 (available only in Turkish).

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Articles

E. Fuat Keyman, "Modernization, Globalization and Democratization in Turkey: The AKP Experience and its Limits," Constellations, 17 (2010): 312-327.
E. Fuat Keyman, "The CHP and the 'Democratic Opening': Reactions to the AK Party's Electoral Hegemony," Insight Turkey, 12 (2010): 91-108.

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Istanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University is an independent policy research institute with global outreach. Our mission is to foster academic research in social sciences and its application to policy making. We are firmly committed to providing decision-makers, opinion leaders, academics, and general public with innovative and objective analyses in key domestic and foreign policy issues. IPC has expertise in a wide range of areas, including—but not exhaustive to—Turkey-EU-U.S. relations, current trends of political and social transformation in Turkey, as well as the impact of civil society and local governance on this metamorphosis.