The Initiative organized a panel “Turkey-EU Relations in the Post-July 15 Era: A Needed Cooperation and Collaboration” on October 10, 2016 at The Seed, Sakıp Sabancı Museum. The panel, which was moderated by Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Research & Academic Affairs Coordinator and Faculty Member at Sabancı University, hosted Fuat Keyman, Director, and Mercator-IPC Senior Fellows Ruprecht Polenz, Nilüfer Göle, and Gerald Knaus as speakers.
The lecture titled “Arab Spring in Perspective: Implications for Europe,” organized by the Initiative, took place at Sabancı University on March 19, 2014, with the participation of Mercator-İPM Senior Researcher Ruprecht Polenz. This lecture was organized as part of Director Fuat Keyman's course “Current Issues in Turkish Politics.”
Istanbul Policy Center-Sabanci University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative held a meeting titled "Understanding the Arab Spring – Implications for Europe and Turkey." The event, moderated by Director Fuat Keyman, featured presentations by Ruprecht Polenz, former member of the German Parliament and Mercator-IPM Senior Researcher, and Mesut Özcan, President of the Center for Strategic Studies.
The panel titled “The German Elections and the Future of EU-Turkey Relations,” organized by the Initiative, took place on January 22, 2014, at İPM Karaköy, with Mercator-İPM Senior Researcher Ruprecht Polenz, Gerald Knaus, and Ebru Turhan participating as panelists.