Action Service Thomas Mayr-Harting, Director for Strategy and Turkey in the Directorate General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission; Simon Mordue, Head of Trade, Economy and Agriculture of the Delegation of the EU to Turkey Balazs Gyargya and International Relations Officer from the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research; Andrea Schmidt, visited IKV.

The delegation was received by IKV Vice-Chairman Prof. Halûk Kabaalioğlu and IKV Vice-Chairwomen Zeynep Bodur Okyay, Member of Board of Directors Yavuz Canevi, IKV Secretary-General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas and IKV Project Manager Çisel İleri.

Recent developments in Turkey-EU relations, the impacts of Turkey 2015 Progress Report, reform process of Turkey and High Level Economic Dialogue which is expected to begin in 2016 were the main topics discussed during the meeting.