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...Global Relations Forum
Global Relations Forum (GRF) is an independent, non-profit membership association committed to being a platform for engaging, informing and stimulating its members and all interested individuals in all matters related to international affairs and global issues.
GRF was founded with the enthusiastic support of 40 accomplished Turkish men and women who have assumed prominent roles in international fora and have received international recognition for their ef...
Participants of the GRF Young Professionals Program are expected to have four years of work experience, and to be no older than 38. Applications for the 2024-2025 term are now closed.
...ral Framework of the Program
Participants of the GRF Young Professionals Program are individuals for whom it is second nature to think comprehensively, to share their opinions with modesty, and to consider the opinions of others with curiosity. It is crucial for the diversity of the group that participants in the program have different educational backgrounds and pursue different career paths.
Participants are expected to have four years of work experience, and to be no older than 38. E...
The GRF Young Academics Program is designed for young academics who are either pursuing or have completed their PhDs within the last three years.
...graciously sponsored the transportation costs of GRF’s Young Academics Program.
Global Relations Forum launched the Young Academics Program to engage with academics who are willing to contribute to national and international policy discussions by drawing on their strong academic and theoretical backgrounds. Through this ever-expanding network of promising young academics, GRF hopes to contribute to bridging the divide between policy circles and academia.
While the overarchi...
...There is a broad perception in India’s strategic COMMUNITY that despite the many new elements of U.S.-Indian cooperation, the United States has recently been tilting toward Pakistan by ramping up its aid to the country and its military-to-military cooperation with Pakistan. Particularly concerning to many Indians is the suggestion made by some influential U.S. commentators that Washington should push New Delhi to alter its military posture toward Pakistan—or even make lasting concessions...
...nce at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, addressed GRF and GRF COMMUNITY members within the framework of the Security Roundtable MEETINGS Series. In her speech entitled “Fight against Global Terrorism along the Lines of International Contentions and Cooperation,” Ms. Yazgan provided an overview of the historical development and current state of terrorist threats in Turkey and underlined the urgent need for international cooperation in the combat against ter...
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Building a Euro-Atlantic Security COMMUNITY has many dimensions, including the multiple and diverse sides of security—from its political-military aspects to economic, environmental, and energy security, as well as human security in the form of good governance and respect for the rights of individuals.
Other dimensions involve the evolving role and significance of key actors. On that front, none is more important than Turkey and the dramatic changes in its role in the Eu...
...e United States, where he attended United Nations MEETINGS in New York and the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. Only a week after taking office, he met with U.S. President Barack Obama as well as other foreign leaders such as Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Hatoyama is the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which on August 30 won a landslide victory in the Lower House election over the long-time ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). As a...
...security was adopted not as a temporary item on GRF’s agenda, but a critical issue on which GRF would continue studies and deliberations over the long run. Hence, the “Security Roundtable MEETINGS Series” was introduced as a complementary mechanism to facilitate engagement with the broader GRF COMMUNITY to discuss these critical issues. The series contributed substantively to the deliberations of the Task Force, and due to GRF’s...
...ce had erupted against Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese COMMUNITY. The chaos left the country—the fourth largest in the world, a sprawling archipelago including more than 17,000 islands, 200 million people, and the world’s largest Muslim population— without a clear leader.
Today, Indonesia is hailed as a model democracy and is a darling of the international financial COMMUNITY. The Jakarta Stock Exchange has been among the world’s top performers in recent years, and some ana...
...he United States, Mr. Damien Levie, convened with GRF Members and a group of GRF COMMUNITY members at a Roundtable held under the “Global Trade and Turkey in the 21st Century” task force MEETINGS on February 12th. During his speech, Mr. Levie focused on the current status of the TTIP negotiations. Mr. Levie then mentioned the procedural and cultural difficulties faced during the process, and expressed his optimism about the potential outcome of the negotia...
...GRF Young Global Program Inaugural Meeting
April 17-19, 2015
In April 2015, Global Relations Forum launched the Young Global Program, a new COMMUNITY program for young thinkers. The Young Global Program is designed to motivate its participants to systematically think about possible paths of fundamental change over very long time horizons. The ultimate goal of the program is to identify norms, values and structures that can and should survive two hundred years of intense...
...s and global financial crisis. But if last year’s MEETINGS took place as confidence in markets collapsed, this year there is a feeling that trust in the basic institutions of global governance, and in the capacity of forums like Davos to set agendas, has reached a low point.
The program urges global leaders to regain public trust, “not only to establish the legitimacy of their redesign but also to instill confidence in their future success.” Unfortunately, the basic assumption behind these...
...tute, and Legal Advisor to the WTO, convened with GRF Members and a group of GRF COMMUNITY members on June 10th at a roundtable meeting held under the “Global Trade and Turkey in the 21st Century” task force MEETINGS. After elaborating on the reasons behind the failure of the Doha round, Prof. Mavroidis focused on the structural problems marginalizing WTO from world trade regulation and enumerated the conditions for rendering the WTO an efficient acto...
...n President Prof. Ayşe Işıl Karakaş convened with GRF Members and a group of GRF COMMUNITY members on June 12th, at a meeting held under the “Rule of Law, Institutions and Global Development” Roundtable MEETINGS Series. During her speech, Prof. Karakaş elaborated on the components of the rule of law, with references to court cases brought to the ECHR in relation to each respective component. She then shared her assessments on the state of the rule of law i...
...he United States, Mr. Damien Levie, convened with GRF Members and a group of GRF COMMUNITY members at a Roundtable held under the “Global Trade and Turkey in the 21st Century” task force MEETINGS on February 12th. During his speech, Mr. Levie focused on the current status of the TTIP negotiations. Mr. Levie then mentioned the procedural and cultural difficulties faced during the process, and expressed his optimism about the potential outcome of the negotia...
...h Karakullukçu,
Vice-Chairman and President of GRF
May 28, 2019
On May 28, 2019, Mr. Memduh Karakullukçu, Vice-Chairman and President of GRF, addressed GRF and GRF COMMUNITY members at a roundtable meeting. With his time as President coming to an end,
Mr. Karakullukçu shared with the participants his thoughts and impressions on global trends throughout his term attending numerous MEETINGS abroad. In his speech, M...
...mor Turkey Ambassador (R) Matthew Bryza addressed GRF and GRF COMMUNITY members at a roundtable meeting organized at GRF offices.
In his speech entitled “The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Global Energy Markets”, Ambassador (R) Bryza examined the geopolitical reflections of the energy cooperation between Turkey and the US in the Central Asian region, and current developments in bilateral ties. In this vein, Ambassador (R) Bryza underlined that ma...
...tir, former CEO of Getir and a 2019 alumna of the GRF Young Professionals Program met with GRF and GRF COMMUNITY members at an online meeting on March 24, 2023 within the scope of Corporate Series MEETINGS. In her speech titled “Growth Journey from Startup to Scaleup”, Evren discussed the challenges and opportunities in the startup entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey through the example of Getir. Evren shared the organizational and financial...
As part of the launch of its report titled “Revitalizing Turkey–European Union Relations on the 20th Anniversary of Accession Negotiations: A New Roadmap,” Global Relations Forum (GRF) held a series of high-level MEETINGS in Brussels from March 17-20, 2025.
...Led by Ambassador (R) Selim Yenel, GRF President, the delegation included key contributors to the report: Ambassador (R) Selim Kuneralp; Professor Sinem Akgül-Açıkmeşe, Head of Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University; Nilgün Arısan-Eralp, Director of the EU Studies Center at TEPAV; and Fulya Kocukoğlu, GRF Program Director.
The delegation conducted in-depth consultations on the current state and future prospects of Turkey–EU relations during MEETIN...
...tion: Internship
Global Relations Forum (GRF) has started accepting applications for full-time and part-time internships for the year 2024.
Responsibilities
Interns will be actively involved in the following tasks:
• Providing organizational support for events and activities.
• Assisting in the compilation of GRF viewpoints, policy analyses, reports, and presentations.
• Drafting meeting notes, preparing concise meeting summaries and presentations.
• Drafting interna...