The opening speech of the video conference, during which Turkey’s vision of equity and cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean and its impacts on the international system will be discussed, will be made by Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun.
During the first session titled “Turkey’s Vision of Equity and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean”, Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran, Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, Member of the Presidential Security and Foreign Policies Council Prof. Çağrı Erhan will deliver speeches. The first session will be moderated by journalist Meryem İlayda Atlas.
In the second session, Chief Advisor to the President, Prof. Gülnur Aybet, Senior Researcher at Hudson Institute Mike Doran, President of Jamestown Foundation Glen Howard, and Professor at Suny Maritime College, Mark Meirowitz will make assessments on the "Impacts of an Equitable Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean on the International System". The moderator of this session will be Kılıç Buğra Kanat, Research Coordinator of SETA Washington DC.