When

Thursday January 19, 2017 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM EST
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Where

SETA Foundation at Washington D.C. 
1025 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 1106
Washington, DC 20036
 

 
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SETA Foundation at Washington DC  
202-223-9885 
info@setadc.org 
 

Turkey and the Middle East under

the Trump Administration

Conference Program

10:00am - 11:30am: Syria and Iraq's Impact on US-Turkey Relations

Luke Coffey, Director, Doublas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation

Sasha Gosh-Siminoff, President and Co-Founder, People Demand Change

Hasan Basri Yalcin, Director of Strategic Studies, The SETA Foundation

Moderator: Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, Research Fellow,
The SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.
 


11:30am - 11:45am: Coffee Break


11:45am - 1:15pm: The Trump Administration and Middle East Policy

Hannah Thoburn, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute

Nicholas Heras, Fellow, Center for a New American Security

Hassan Hassan, Fellow, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

Kilic B. Kanat, Research Director, The SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.

Moderator: Kadir Ustun, Executive Director, The SETA Foundation at Washingotn D.C.
 


1:15pm - 2:00pm: Lunch Break


2:00pm - 3:30pm: Turkey's Fight Against ISIS

Ufuk Ulutas,  Director, Foreign Policy Program, The SETA Foundation 

Murat Yesiltas, Director, Security Policy Program, The SETA Foundation

Discussant: Bassam Barabandi, Advisor, Syrian High Negotiation Committee 

Moderator: Kilic B. Kanat, Research Director, The SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.
 


     ** Participants are requested to register for each individual
                                session they wish to attend **