IKV organised a meeting entitled “Turkey’s European Perspective During the Estonian EU Presidency” in cooperation with Estonian Business School in Tallinn on 13 December 2017. At the meeting within the scope of IKV’s EU Presidencies Project which has been carried out since 2010, opening speeches were delivered by IKV Chairman Ayhan Zeytinoğlu, Turkey’s Ambassador to Estonia Hayriye Kumaşçıoğlu and Assoc. Prof. Meelis Kitsing from Estonian Business School.

During the first panel of the meeting, IKV Vice-Chairman Prof. Halûk Kabaalioğlu, Turkey’s Desk Officer at Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lilian Kasevali and the Director of EU Studies Center at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (Türkiye Ekonomi Politikaları Araştırma Vakfı – TEPAV) Nilgün Arısan Eralp addressed the current developments and the issues in Turkey-EU relations. The panelists of the second round in which the effects of modernisation of the Turkey-EU Customs Union were touched upon were IKV Secretary General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas and the retired Judge of the Court of Justice of the EU Prof. Vilenas Vadapalas.

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