King Abdullah II, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Winter 2012
Veli Ağbaba, Deputy Chairman of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and a Member of Parliament for Malatya; Fall 2016
Irakli Alasania, Minister of Defense of Georgia; Fall 2013
Prince Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco; Summer 2012
Ayad Allawi, Former Prime Minister of Iraq; Summer 2005
Ertuğrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine; Winter 2017
Bogdan Aurescu, State Secretary for European Affairs of Romania; Spring 2011
Ali Babacan, Minister of State in charge of Economy of Turkey; Fall 2003 & Winter 2004
Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Istanbul; Spring 2011
Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden; Fall 2009
Mehmet Bostan, Chairman and CEO of the Turkish Wealth Fund (TWF); Summer 2017
Volkan Bozkır, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey, Winter 2015
Emine Bozkurt, Member of the European Parliament and Rapporteur on Women’s Rights in Turkey; Summer 2013 & Spring 2007
Selin Sayek Böke, Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) spokesperson and vice chair responsible for Economic Policy; Summer 2016
Philip M. Breedlove, Commander of U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Winter 2014
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of OSCE; Spring 2009
İsmail Cem, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey; Spring 2002
Demetris Christofias, President of the Republic of Cyprus; Spring 2012
George Ciamba, Secretary of State for European Affairs of Romania; Winter 2014
Zafer Çağlayan, Minister of Economy of Turkey; Fall 2011
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey; Summer 2010, Spring 2015, Fall 2016
Agim Çeku, Prime Minister of Kosovo; Winter 2006
Hikmet Çetin, Senior Civilian Representative of NATO in Afghanistan; and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey; Summer 2004 & Summer 2007
Ahmet Davutoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey; Fall 2009, Spring 2014
Süleyman Demirel, Former President of the Turkish Republic; Summer 2005
Selahattin Demirtaş, Co-Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Winter 2015
Kemal Derviş, Former Minister of Economic Affair of Turkey; Summer 2002 & Summer 2003 & Fall 2004
Cristian Diaconescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania; Spring 2009
Hansın Doğan, Private Sector Manager UNDP Turkey; Summer 2017
Ozgul Erdemli, Director of corporate communications and environment policies at the
Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats (TEMA); Summer 2017
Mustafa Ergen, Chief Advisor in Technology and Investment at the TWF; Summer 2017
Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France; Fall 2012
Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany; Fall 2004
Stefan Füle, EU Commissioner Responsible for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy; Summer 2011
Vecdi Gönül, Minister of National Defense of Turkey; Spring 2010
Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey; Summer 2003 & Fall 2004 & Winter 2007
Ürün Güner, Member of the Executive Board of Flying Broom Movie Festival; Summer 2017
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly from Nationalist Movement Party, Spring 2015
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia; Winter 2013
James F. Jeffrey, Philip Solondz Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy & Former United States Ambassador to Turkey; Fall 2017
Rıza Kadılar, Senior international investment banker, Founding Chairman of China Institute Turkey (ÇİTAM), Summer 2017
Tarkan Kadooğlu, President of the Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation
(TÜRKONFED); Summer 2016
Roger Kelly, Lead Regional Economist, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Turkey
Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Culture of the Kingdom of Bahrain; Winter 2012
Gerald Knaus, Founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative; Fall 2016
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP); Winter 2010 & Summer 2017
Leonid Kozhara, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Spring 2013
Faruk Loğoğlu, Vice President of the Republican People’s Party (CHP); Turkey; Summer 2003 & Fall 2011
Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defense of Canada; Spring 2010
Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan; Fall 2007
John McCain, United States Senator from Arizona; Fall 2012
Louis Michel, EU Commissioner and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium; Summer 2003
Aylin Nazliaka, Independent Member of Parliament; Summer 2017
Zeynep Bodur Okyay, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kale Group Turkey; Summer 2016
Numan Özcan, Director of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Office for Turkey; Fall 2016
Faruk Özlü, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey from the Justice and Development Party (AKP); Summer 2017
Artis Pabriks, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia; Fall 2006
Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General of World Trade Organization; Winter 2002
George Andreas Papandreou, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece; Spring 2002
Solomon Passy, Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria; Fall 2004
Şafak Pavey, Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly from the Republican People’s Party (CHP); Spring 2015
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO; Fall 2012
Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner responsible for Enlargement and European Neighborhood
Policy; Fall 2005 & Summer 2008
Mithat Rende, Former Turkish ambassador to Qatar and former chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Executive Committee; Summer 2016 & Summer 2017
Lord George Robertson, Secretary General of NATO; Winter 2002
Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia; Spring 2013
Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of Interior of Germany; Winter 2006
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of NATO; Winter 2008
Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Winter 2018
Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus; Summer 2006
Ahmet Sözen, Director of Cyprus Policy Center and a faculty member at Eastern
Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus; Winter 2017
Wolfgang Sporrer; Political Analyst at the OSCE’s SMM to Ukraine; Winter 2017
James G. Stavridis, Commander of the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM)
and NATO‘s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR); Spring 2010
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Former Finance Minister of France and Member of Parliament in the French National Assembly; Fall 2004
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO; Fall 2015
Fatma Şahin, Minister of Family and Social Policy of Turkey; Spring 2012
El Hassan bin Talal, Prince of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Summer 2002
Mehmet Ali Talat, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; Fall 2005 & Fall 2008
Andreas Theophanous, Professor of Political Economy and the President of the Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus; Winter 2017
Frans Timmermans, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Fall 2013
Kadir Topbaş, Metropolitan Mayor of Istanbul; Summer 2012
Hayati Yazıcı, Minister of Customs and Trade of Turkey; Spring 2012
Taner Yıldız, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey; Summer 2010 & Fall 2012
İsmet Yılmaz, Minister of National Defense of Turkey; Fall 2011
George Vassilou, Former President of the Republic of Cyprus; Winter 2005
Guido Westerwelle, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Spring 2011
Nihat Zeybekçi, Minister of Economy for the Justice and Development Party (AKP); Fall 2016
* The titles are those which the author had at time of contribution.
