Good morning, everyone. Im director of turkey studies at middle east institute. Im very happy to welcome you all to our eighth annual conference on turkey. Each year as we convene this conference we fine keen interest in turkish matters. 2017 was very dramatic and a difficult year for turkey for its neighbors and allies including the United States. So we appreciate if you are making time to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speaker, is a leading voice on Turkish Affairs in Foreign Affairs of the german parliament. She will provide a firsthand report on the challenges facing ankara and berlin. We have elected members of the turkish and European Parliament on the program as well alongside a leader in u. S. Diplomacy toward turkey and expert analyst. You will hear our guest speaking guest speakers on three panels. To begin we will examine turkeys internal dynamics. Our panelist include recent member of the Turkish Parliament, Political Party representative and scholars who have been
On turkey. And the countrys domestic politics. Including the growing power of the president and his party. Also, the role rival parties might play in this novembers elections. Good morning, everyone. Im director of turkey studies at middle east institute. Im very happy to welcome you all to our eighth annual conference on turkey. Each year as we convene this conference we fine keen interest in turkish matters. 2017 was very dramatic and a difficult year for turkey for its neighbors and allies including the United States. So we appreciate if you are making time to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speaker, is a leading voice on Turkish Affairs in Foreign Affairs of the german parliament. She will provide a firsthand report on the challenges facing ankara and berlin. We have elected members of the turkish and European Parliament on the program as well alongside a leader in u. S. Diplomacy toward turkey and expert analyst. You will hear our guest speaking guest speakers on three pane
Thousand this year alone. I promised you a little cloak and dagger but let me set it up for you last year u. S. President donald trump famously said and i quote nobody knew health care was so complex well a lot of people that health care is complex and that may be one of the reasons why print the president has not repealed and replaced the Affordable Care act obamacare as he had sought but in fairness we live in an increasingly complex world for example the law that established our us Banking System in eight hundred sixty four was only twenty nine pages ill be speaking about the Federal Reserve in a few minutes and the Federal Reserve act of one nine hundred thirteen the entire thing was only thirty two pages but the wall street reform and Consumer Protection act of two thousand and ten commonly known as dodd frank a law i worked on in the wake of the financial collapse is eight hundred forty eight pages long and there are close to four hundred regulations related to that various agenc
The possible to the standoff between. Government its being reported that the wiki leaks cofounder has been ecuadorian id card as a step towards. Diplomatic immunity. The Foreign Office to comment on the situation. Our correspondent. Picks up the story the mystery of what happens next in the. Really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the Ecuadorian Embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that Julian Assange had posted on his twitter page wearing a t. Shirt with the Ecuadorian National colors parking lots of debate and questions online about whether or not this could potentially mean that he has either has been or is on his way to being granted citizenship those questions of course are yet to be specifically answered by either Julian Assange himself the founder of wiki leaks or ecuadorian officials what we do know so far is that a
Nine oclock thursday morning here at moscow youre watching International News team here putting together your latest world news headlines. A possible develop. A step towards ending his five year confinement and its long and the skated tricky and internationally spanning case of Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian Embassy seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that Julian Assange had posted on his twitter page wearing a t. Shirts with the Ecuadorian National colors parking lots of debate and questions online about whether or not this could potentially mean that he has either has been or is on his way to being granted citizenship those questions of course are yet to be specifically answered by either Julian Assange himself the founder of wiki leaks or ecuadorian officials what we do know so far is that a son seems to have been issued some sort of national ecuadorian Identification Number which is easily seen on the ecuadorian. Websites where this particular number coincides w