Im delight to introduce the moderator for the second panel on the turkish economy. He is a senior fellow and director of the turkey project in the center on the United States and europe at the brookings institution. At brookings and previously on the faculty of the university in istanbul he has produced a rich body of Scholarly Research on topics including u. S. Turkish relations and turkish trade policies and Foreign Trade policies, the author of several books, the newest entitled turkey and the west fault lines in a troubled airline just came out in july. You can purchase it here if you like. We are very grateful to him for taking the reigns and i will leave to it him to introduce the panel and lead the conversation from now until 12 30. Please welcome him and the panel. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Im delighted to be here. Im not not sure whether ill be able to reign the panel as eliso has done and not sure i can speak as soft as she has been able to do. Please bear with me. T
Istanbul he has produced a rich body of Scholarly Research on topics including u. S. Turkish relations and turkish trade policies and Foreign Trade policies, the author of several books, the newest entitled turkey and the west fault lines in a troubled airline just came out in july. You can purchase it here if you like. We are very grateful to him for taking the reigns and i will leave to it him to introduce the panel and lead the conversation from now until 12 30. Please welcome him and the panel. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Im delighted to be here. Im not not sure whether ill be able to reign the panel as eliso has done and not sure i can speak as soft as she has been able to do. Please bear with me. Theres a lot that will need to be covered here. Oat in the program we have our honorable first speaker member of the European Parliament. I have sought his permission to allow me to start with a professor from the university of maryland. Right now, she has a fellowship working als
Democracy in chains. Ive made no secret of just how important i think this book is, in my humble opinion. [inaudible] we are doing our best, okay . Turn up the airconditioning back there . Okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics, some of you might know i was on the Durham City Council for eight years in the previous lifetime. [applause] and it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent, and understand where theyre coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows, i think, that our understanding of what is called at sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right, has been very limited, and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. I think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read this book, understand it. And i think will
And the inspired action you took to come to the aid of the veteran in crisis. Thank you all for the work that you do day in and day out on behalf of those who have served. A few weeks ago i had the honor of meeting with robert mcdonald, the secretary of the va. Secretary mcdonald is a man who has time and again answered the call of duty to his and our nation. He graduated from the United States military academy at west point in the top 2 of his class in 1975. An army veteran. Mr. Mcdonald served with the 82nd airborne division, completed jungle, arctic, desert warfare training, earned the ranger tab, that expert infantry men badge. Senior parachutist wing. Upon leaving military service, captain mcdonald was awarded the Meritorious Service medal. But mr. Mcdonalds expertise as a soldier is equal by his business beingaccumen. He earned a degree from the university of utah and has a career in the private sector. Before joining the va, chairman mcdonald was chairman, president and chief ex
Hello, i am emily anguish. This is denise our live from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. Ah, former pakistani Prime Minister im run con is shot and wounded while leading a protest rally. One person is killed in the attack. The bank of england raises Interest Rates to 3 percent and tackle inflation. Its the biggest hike in decades. A show of strength. North korea carries out more missile launches, prompting the u. S. And south korea to extend join to military drills. Schools converted into kitchens, how floods across nigeria are affecting hundreds of thousands of students and coming up in sport with 17 days to go until the world cup. South koreas captain is heading for i surgery and could miss the tournament. Ah, we begin the program in pakistan where former Prime Minister im ron kahn is in hospital after being shot at a reli. Ah, a gunman opened fire on a Campaign Trunk and carrying. He mean that was 0 bad at district b, eastern punjab province. Con was leading a protest march f