Hour. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nature of two named alice. Im Ellen Laipson and im currently the director of the International Security program at George Mason University and its a great pleasure to preside over todays discussion on a topic that i think is particularly compelling. So in our topsyturvy world where we write love letters to authoritarians and would publicly disparaged our allies, its interesting to think what is a u. S. Turkish relations fit in that sort a spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category, or maybe none, maybe well try to figure out today a special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its often been a tumultuous relationship, one where the executive branch and coastal always see eye to eye it is a fundamentally a secreta partnership, or do we have a turkeys democratic standing . If turkey is questioning its nato membership and it
Question. Start off with the administrator, everybody seems to be on the same page about the importance of cooperation. What do those words get transformed to the concrete actions like an extension of the iga, Bilateral Agreements or something firm and finding against the various agencies working together. I try to answered what you are staying. You are asking very general. All of these agencies over here, they are already activities going on in cooperation. Not only the International Space station but also other programs, agreements. If you asked concretely this is another question. For that we are looking our meeting already since now, two or three years at least. This is more important than that just the agreement. The agreement has to follow up i hope. Scenic thats right, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with a concept that we think it would work. It ultimately ends with those taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries are our organiza
Theyre going to be talking about International Cooperation in space. So youre asking it in very general terms and, of course, with all these agencies oef here, there are already activities going on in cooperation not only on the International Space station but also in other programs so there are bilateral and multilateral agreements. If you ask concretely about gateway, this is another question. And for that, we are looking we are meeting already since now, since two, three years, at least, working on it, and this is more important than just the agreements. The agreements is something which has to follow us, i hope. Jim . Thats right. So, you know, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with the concepts that we think would work and then it ultimately ends with us taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries or our organizations. The European Space agency, for example, has to go to its ministerial. Nasa has to go to the United States congress. And
I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nation unto alex. Im currently the director of the International Security director at george mason university. Its a great pleasure to reside over todays discussion on a topic i think is particularly compelling. In a world where we write love letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in t
Letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in the decision by the United States to withdraw troops from Northern Syria. There is just a lot going on in the u. S. Turkish relationship and im delighted we have three such excellent speakers to join us and try to make sense of this. The professor of International Relations at Lehigh University where he served for over a decade