Turkey’s Increasing Role in the MENA – Its Scope and Challenges?

Ziya Meral, a London-based Turkish writer, researcher and academic will address the following questions:

• How will Turkey use its rising power and foreign policy influence?
• What does the Obama-Turkey-Israel relations 're-set' signify?
• As Syria's Northern neighbour how will it continue to react?
• What does Turkey's own internal Kurdish separatist demands mean for any 're-ordered' Iraq and/or Syria?
• How will Turkey deal with the hydrocarbon exploitation of the Med South East basin, including an economically weakened Cyprus?
• Will Turkey provide any 'counter-balance' to Russia in the Region?

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