Crisis and Transformation
Turkey’s immediate neighborhood will continue to dominate the global policy agenda in 2013. To its north, Europe is at a crossroads, with ramifications that extend well beyond the confines of the EU, while an irreversible quest for dignity, freedom, democracy, and peace is altering the political landscape to its south.
ANKARA – It has become a cliché to characterize our era as one of multiple rapid transformations. But 2012 was particularly eventful. Not a single day passed without requiring continuous and concerted attention to economic crises, political and military conflicts, social upheavals, cultural clashes, or environmental problems in some corner of the world.