TTIP’s Enlargement and the Case of Turkey

Turkey Papers (IPC & Wilson Center) January 2015

Kemal Kirişci *

The Global Europe Program is pleased to announce the launch of a new collaborative publication series between the Wilson Center and the Istanbul Policy Center: the IPC-Wilson Center Turkey Papers. The series is co-edited by Bülent Aras, Professor of International Relations at Sabanci University and Global Fellow in the Global Europe Program, and Christian F. Ostermann, Director of the Global Europe Program at the Wilson Center.

In the inaugural publication in the series, Kemal Kirişci discusses “TTIP’s Enlargement and the Case of Turkey.” Kirişci argues that Turkey’s inclusion in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would be economically and geo-strategically advantageous for all parties involved.

* Kemal Kirişci is the TÜSİAD senior fellow and director of the  Center on the United States and Europe’s Turkey Project at Brookings.

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