United States Institute of Peace Facilitates High Level U.S.-Turkey Dialogue
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) facilitated a U.S.-Turkish Working Group in Istanbul December 14-15, 2010, led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Ilter Turkmen, former foreign minister of Turkey.
For Immediate Release, January 18, 2011
Contact: Allison Sturma
202-429-4725
asturma@usip.org
The U.S. delegation included former members of Congress James Kolbe and Vin Weber, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz, experts Henri Barkey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lehigh University, Toni Verstandig of the Aspen Institute and of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, James O’Brien of the Albright Stonebridge Group and Scott B. Lasensky of the U.S. Institute of Peace. Resulting from the working group is the following mutual statement on U.S.-Turkish relations: Download the Statement. (PDF/76 KB)
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Photo at Right: Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright co-chaired a USIP high-level American-Turkish dialogue in Istanbul. Albright was joined by former Turkish Foreign Minister Ilter Turkmen, who led the Turkish delegation (seated, left of Albright). Other participants shown in photo, from bottom row left: Fariba Yassaee (Stonebridge Albright Group LLC), former Congressman James Kolbe, Turkmen, Albright, Rizanur Meral (TUSKON), Dr. Scott Lasensky (USIP); Second row, Ambassador Volkan Vural (TUSIAD), Leslie Thompson (USIP), Professor Ustun Erguder (Sabanci University), Toni Verstandig (Aspen Institute), former Congressman Vin Weber, Umit Boyner (TUSIAD), Professor Henri Barkey (Lehigh University and Carnegie Endowment), Dr. Can Paker (TESEV), Dr. James O’Brien (Stonebridge Albright), and Ambassador Morton Abramowitz (Century Foundation). Not pictured: Mehmet Ali Birand (CNN Turk, KanalD) and Eyup Can (Editor, Radikal).
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