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Dr. Ilke Toygür

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Turkey/CATS CATS Fellow

ilke.toyguer@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
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Areas of Expertise

Turkey
EU enlargement policy
EU foreign policy
EU institutions
European Union
Political system of the European Union
Principles of European integration
Transatlantic relations

Focus

Turkey, Southern Europe, EU enlargement policy, EU institutions, European Union, Principles of European integration, Political system of the European Union, EU foreign policy, Transatlantic relations

Short Curriculum vitae

Since 09/2020 CATS Fellow at SWP Berlin

Since 01/2017 Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Carlos III University of Madrid

01/2017 – 01/2022 Analyst, European Affairs, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid

11/2015 – 11/2016 Mercator – IPC Fellow, Istanbul Policy Center

10/2011 – 11/2016 PhD in Political Science, Autonomous University of Madrid

09/2008 - 10/2010 European Affairs Analyst, Economic Development Foundation (IKV), Istanbul and Brussels

SWP Publications

- Ilke Toygür
Why is there no place for strategic ambiguity this time around on the European continent?

The Russian invasion in Ukraine has solidified alliances on the European continent and with transatlantic partners. Balancing acts and strategic ambiguities are becoming difficult to sustain. Turkey should demonstrate where it stands, argues Ilke Toygür.

Point of View, 02.03.2022
- Ilke Toygür
Embracing Biden’s Democracy Agenda? Start with Turkey

As economic woes edge Ankara towards dialogue, the European Union has a long list of geopolitical issues to discuss. Ilke Toygür argues that questions of democracy must not be forgotten.

Point of View, 22.06.2021
Conference on the Future of Europe: what do the institutions want?

in: Minna Ålander, Nicolai von Ondarza, Sophia Russack (eds.): Managed Expectations: EU Member States’ Views on the Conference on the Future of Europe, Working Paper Research Division EU/Europe 2021/ No. 03, June 2021, pp. 11-12

doi:10.18449/2021WP07
- Ilke Toygür
- Héctor Sánchez Margalef
Spain: ready to turn results into action

in: Minna Ålander, Nicolai von Ondarza, Sophia Russack (eds.): Managed Expectations: EU Member States’ Views on the Conference on the Future of Europe, Working Paper Research Division EU/Europe 2021/ No. 03, June 2021, p. 33, 35 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021WP07
- Ilke Toygür
No Easy Reset: Time for Europe to Clarify Its Relationship with Turkey

After a rough period, Ankara is making overtures to Brussels. Ilke Toygür discusses the prospects, the need for the EU to clarify its own position, and the implications of the election of Joe Biden.

Point of View, 03.02.2021
- Alan Makovsky
- Ilke Toygür
New US President - Boost or Blow for EU's Tricky Ties with Turkey?

Damien McGuinness talks to Alan Makovsky and Ilke Toygür about what a Biden presidency means for EU-Turkey relations. Will it improve that rocky relationship? And what does the US expect from the EU?

SWP Podcast 2021/eP 01, 21.01.2021
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External publications

- Ilke Toygür
Competing options for EU enlargement

in: EUobserver, 24.06.2022 (online)
- Ilke Toygür
Experts’ Debrief: Harnessing the EU Accession Perspective for Consolidating Democracy in Accession Trio Countries

in: Ilke Toygür et al., Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), Experts' Debrief- Special Issue, 16.06.2022, p. 23
- Ilke Toygür
- Sophie Pornschlegel
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Unity is good, but ambition is better

in: European Policy Centre (EPC), Connecting Europe Programme, Discussion Paper, 2022 (online)
- Ilke Toygür
Agenda Exterior: ¿nuevas ampliaciones europeas?

[Foreign Agenda: New European enlargements?]

in: Política Exterior, 18.03.2022 (online)
- Ilke Toygür
Is There Any Place Strategic Ambiguity in Europe?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has solidified alliances. Turkey should demonstrate where it stands.

in: Fair Observer, 08.03.2022
- Ilke Toygür
- Funda Tekin
- Eduard Soler i Lecha
- Nicholas Danforth
In-Depth Analysis: Turkey’s foreign policy and its consequences for the EU

in: ThinkThank, European Parliament, 16.02.2022 (online)

doi: (pdf) 10.2861/03915 (paper) 10.2861/354184

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