Turkey's European Future: Youth is the Key, Spring 2006

Monday, June 5, 2006

In this issue of Turkish Policy Quarterly we focus on one of our salient priorities :Youth. In particular, we concentrate on youth participation - within Turkey and the EU – in politics, social change, cultural exchange and economic development. We question whether today’s youth is more sceptica l about shaping the future than past generations, lay out the structural and cultural obstacles they face, inquire into the extent to which the plentiful Turkish youth constitute added value in Turkey’s bid for EU membership, and explore the important role of youth in engendering tolerance, enriching democratic practices, enlivening the economy and motivating Europens to a more stronger Union.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Nigâr Göksel

D. Nigar Goksel has been Editor-in-Chief of the Istanbul-based Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) since 2002 and Turkey and Cyprus Analyst for Crisis Group's Turkey/Cyprus Project since April 2015. She was Senior Analyst at the European Stability Initiative (ESI) between 2004-11, where she covered Turkey and the Caucasus. In Spring 2014, she joined FRIDE as associate fellow, focusing on the Black Sea region. She is a regular contributor to the German Marshall Fund’s ‘On Turkey’ series and writes frequently for Al Jazeera International. Nigar is also registered as an independent consultant for political analysis and project management. She has designed a range of reconciliation and civil society capacity-building initiatives in Turkey and the South Caucasus.

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