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, Summer 2018
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
Therese Hydén, Consul General of Sweden in Istanbul; Spring 2019
Clare Hutchinson, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security; Summer 2019
Ruhsar Pekcan, Minister of Trade of Turkey; Winter 2019
Richard Morningstar, US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Deputy Director of Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center; Fall 2018
Rose Gottemoeller, Deputy Secretary General of NATO; Summer 2018
Ömer Çelik, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator of the Republic of Turkey, Spring 2018
Ünal Çeviköz, Vice President of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Member of Parliament in Turkish Grand National Assembly; Summer 2018
* The titles are those which the author had at time of contribution.
