Turkish Area Study Group
www.tasg.org.uk

Special Conference

Turkey and the EU – The Great Challenge

St Antony’s College, Oxford
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Saturday 21 November 2009

10.00am to 5.30pm

10.00   Coffee, registration (in the Hilda Besse Building)
10.30  Professor Şevket Pamuk, Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE
The Economic costs and benefits to the EU of Turkish membership
11.30 Staffan Carlsson, Ambassador of Sweden to the United Kingdom
The accession negotiations: Are we really getting anywhere?
12.30   Lunch 
14.00  David Barchard,  Department of Communications, Bilkent University, Ankara
Attitudes to EU accession in Turkey four years into the negotiations
15.00  Professor Süha Bölükbaşı, Professor of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Cyprus: Is it an obstacle to Turkey’s EU accession?
16.00   Tea
16.30   Panel discussion chaired by Michael Lake, former EU Ambassador to Turkey