Question: New Opportunities and Challenges
Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:00 — 3:30 pm
The Brookings Institution,
Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington,
DC
In recent years Turkey has emerged as a
global player with a vibrant economy and an ambitious new foreign policy
characterized by growing self-confidence and enhanced activism. However, in many
ways, Turkey’s lingering problem dealing with its Kurdish minority remains the
country's Achilles’ heel. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
government faces multiples challenges and new opportunities on the Kurdish
front, and the issue has real potential to shape next year’s national elections.
Even more broadly, the future of Turkish democracy and the success of its
regional foreign policy may depend on how Ankara will handle the expectations of
Turkey's Kurdish community.
On December 10, the Center on the United
States and Europe at Brookings (CUSE) will host a discussion of the challenges
and opportunities that Turkey faces in its effort to resolve the 26-year Kurdish
insurgency. The discussion will feature three leading experts on Turkey and its
Kurdish ethnic minority: Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Ömer Taşpınar;
Henri Barkey of Lehigh University and the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace; and Gönül Tol, director of the Center for Turkish Studies and
scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute.
Senior Fellow Justin
Vaïsse, CUSE director of research, will provide introductory remarks and
moderate the discussion. After the program, the panelists will take audience
questions.
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