Webinar

Assessing Turkey's Fault Lines With Europe and the Kurds

Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Johanna Geron / REUTERS
Speakers
Ian O. Lesser

Vice President, Foreign Policy and Executive Director, Transatlantic Center, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Merve Tahiroğlu

Turkey Program Coordinator at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)

Presider
Henri J. Barkey

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable Series on the Future of the Kurds and Middle East Program

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