Unpacking Turkish Foreign Policy: Türkiye’s role in European security

Speakers: HE Tacan Ildem, Former Assistant Secretary General of NATO & Former Turkish Ambassador to NATO; Ben Hodges, Lieutenant General (Ret’d), Former Commander, NATO Allied Land Command, former Commanding General, United States Army Europe; Oana Lungescu, Former NATO Spokesperson and Senior Advisor, European Policy Centre; Demir Murat Seyrek, Non-resident Academic Fellow at the EPC & Adjunct Professor at the Brussels School of Governance

Moderator: Amanda Paul, Deputy Head of the Europe in the World Programme & Head of Ukraine’s European Future Project, European Policy Centre

Amid the backdrop of Russia’s war in Ukraine, an evolving geopolitical landscape, and the prospect of the US ending its traditional leadership role in European security, the potential role of Türkiye in the development of a new European security architecture has become a much-debated issue. This online Policy Dialogue assessed Türkiye’s role in European security, its potential involvement in the redesign of the European security architecture, and the main challenges and obstacles to this.