On September 28, 2017, Moscow hosted a closed seminar “Russia and Turkey: Security Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation”, organized by Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Center for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (SAM).
On September 28, 2017, Moscow hosted a closed seminar “Russia and Turkey: Security Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation”, organized by Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Center for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (SAM).
Russian and Turkish delegations were headed by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Mesut Özcan, SAM Chairman, correspondingly.
Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs, mediated the meeting.
Russian and Turkish experts and diplomats discussed the issues of bilateral relations in regional and international conflict resolution, economic and energy cooperation, cultural and humanitarian relations.
Pavel Shlykov, associate professor in the History of Near and Middle Eastern Countries department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Elena Alekseenkova, RIAC Program Manager, Vladimir Morozov, RIAC Program Coordinator, and Ruslan Mamedov, RIAC Program Coordinator, also took part in the event.
