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A Foreign Policy and Center on the United States and Europe Event

Turkish-U.S. Relations: Looking Ahead

Turkey, Europe, Islamic World, Global Economics

Event Summary

Introductory Remarks:
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution

Featured Speaker:
Abdullah Gül
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey

Moderator:
Philip H. Gordon
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
Prepared Remarks by Featured Speaker Abdullah Gül - (PDF)
Contact: Brookings Office of Communications
Phone: 202/797-6105

H.E. Abdullah Gül, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of Turkey, delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution on a full range of Turkish foreign policy issues including Turkish relations with the U.S.; its candidacy for the European Union; diplomacy with Iran; Cyprus; Iraq; and other regional issues.

Event Information

When

Thursday, July 06, 2006
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Map

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

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Minister Gül began his career as an economics professor and worked as an economist at the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia. He was first elected as a member of the Turkish Parliament in 1991, and he has also served as minister of state, Turkish government spokesman, and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In 2001, he was awarded with the Pro-merito Medal of the Council of Europe and also founded the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. He was appointed as Turkish prime minister in 2002, and received his current appointment as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in March 2003.

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