Reinvigorating Turkey’s Transatlantic Enthusiasm Through TTIP

Policy Brief (German Marshall Fund of the United States) April 1, 2015

Joshua W. Walker & Alison O. Patch *

Western leaders must carefully consider new ways and means for including an increasingly distant Turkey into a transatlantic framework. They should prioritize deeper integration of the Turkish economy with Europe and North America through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) starting with the April meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington.

* Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D. is a transatlantic fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States and vice-president of global programs at APCO Worldwide, where Alison O. Patch is an energy fellow and master’s student studying security policy at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

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