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Strategic Focus on Turkey Project

29 September 2008

Chatham House is pleased to announce the launch of the Strategic Focus on Turkey Project supported by Doğan Holding. This project will analyse and highlight some of the significant issues resulting from the geo-political and geo-economic position of Turkey, and its implications for British, European, US, Turkish and other governments' policies. Areas of research will include Turkey's role in the Middle East, its role in diversifying Europe's energy security and Turkey's role in the development of the Black Sea region and Central Asia.

In addition, Mrs Arzuhan Doğan Yalcındağ, a member of the Board of Directors of Doğan Holding has agreed to join the new Chatham House Panel of Senior Advisers, to which she will bring her experience and personal insights on Turkey, Turkey's relationship with its neighbours and allies, and on global economic issues, including the role of the media in the process of globalisation.

Mrs Doğan Yalcındağ, is a member of the Board of Directors of Doğan Holding, founding member of the Aydın Doğan Foundation - a philanthropic organisation promoting education, health, sporting activities and culture in Turkey - and the first-ever woman to become President of TÜSİAD (the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmens' Association), a leading civil society organisation in Turkey.

Doğan Holding is one of the pre-eminent business groups in Turkey with extensive activities in the media, tourism, energy, real estate and insurance sectors. It has joint partnerships with a number of well-established international companies, including CNN (part of AOL-Time Warner), Axel Springer, OMV, Universal Music Group, Burda GmbH and Egmont Publishing.

Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House said: 'Chatham House will be in a position to help give Turkey and its strategic role the prominence it deserves in the international policy debate. We are especially grateful to Mrs. Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ and Doğan Holding for supporting this initiative. I am also delighted that Chatham House will benefit from the input and expertise of Mrs Arzuhan Doğan Yalcındağ as a member of the institute's new Panel of Senior Advisers.'

Mrs. Arzuhan Doğan Yalcındağ said: 'Dogan Holding is very happy to support a distinctive project on Turkey with world-leading think-tank Chatham House. I look forward to sharing my insights on Turkey and other significant issues in international affairs among such a distinguished globally-renowned group of individuals in foreign policy, business and civil society on the Panel of Senior Advisers.'

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