As İstanbul becomes a hub for international forums, seminars, workshops and conferences, a fairly new non-governmental organization has been determined to steal the stage in autumn since 2009, and the issue on which it concentrates, the Middle East, has been ever changing since the Arab protests started.
“It seems like there are at least three meetings every week in İstanbul, so there is competition. But we don’t organize just a show in which the prime minister comes to do the opening and then there is not much substance. In our forum, every participant is a potential speaker,” said Suat Kınıklıoğlu, director of the Ankara-based Center for Strategic Communication (STRATİM), established in 2008 and which organizes the İstanbul Forum.
The forum, conducted in the years 2009, 2011 and recently on Oct. 8-10, has been focusing on developments in the Middle East, rather unintentionally, Kınıklıoğlu told Sunday’s Zaman:
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