Good morning, everyone. Im the director of turkey studies at the middle east institute. Im happy to welcome you all to our eighth annual conference on turkey. Each year as we convene this conference, we find interest in turkish matters. 2017 was very dramatic and difficult year for turkey and neighbors. We appreciate that so many of you are making time today to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speak er is a leadig voice on turkish affairs. She will provide a first hand report on the berlin. We have elected members of the turkish and parliaments on the program as well along side a leader in u. S. Diplomacy and expert analysts. Youll hear our guests speaking on three panels. To begin well examine turkeys environment. Our Panel Includes a recent member of the turkish parliament. Scholars who have been writing and following turkey. Off our Morning Coffee break well turn our attention to turkeys economy with the help of three turkish scholars who teach at Washington Area universities
Neighbors. We appreciate that so many of you are making time today to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speak er is a leadig voice on turkish affairs. She will provide a first hand report on the berlin. We have elected members of the turkish and parliaments on the program as well along side a leader in u. S. Diplomacy and expert analysts. Youll hear our guests speaking on three panels. To begin well examine turkeys environment. Our Panel Includes a recent member of the turkish parliament. Scholars who have been writing and following turkey. Off our Morning Coffee break well turn our attention to turkeys economy with the help of three turkish scholars who teach at Washington Area universities and a member of the parliament. Well hear from our keynote speaker at 1 30 p. M. Well follow with the days final panel looking at turkeys foreign relations. Particularly turkeys relationship with the u. S. , European Union and russia. We will be joined by legislatures from turkey and European
The governments actions only from political and sometimes very partisan point of view do you actually have enough capacity both as media and as government to pursue you know policies that actually matter for people in daily lives Like Health Care education and so on and so forth because to be honest with you i havent seen much coverage of those essential issues in the American Media its all about trump these days its very little about the substantive questions well if you if you look at the coverage of the recent attacks bill. Youll see quite a while of substance in press coverage. Who will be affected by this the tax cuts whether this will still be a way its. Growth whether it will cause American Companies to repatriate their assets all of this is covered in the press and a good thing too because thats how the thats how the public finds out what whats actually in the tax bill now you also contribute to that discussion because the earlier this year you will call it an article suggestin
A certain freedom to. Unsecured its own policies how would you ballance those out thats where constraints on. On what a particular official can do come in. For example. Under the american system the government is not allowed to. Tell the newspaper not to write. On a subject unless unless it can be argued that. National security will be jeopardized immediately and thats a very difficult argument to make their freedom to told the newspaper or or t. V. Station that they dont like what does what journalists are doing but they cant stop them but its interesting if you can bring in this example of media because i think thats of particular. American hangout because governance is not about what the media is riding on not writing about this or that particular governor governor of government dont you actually think that in the United States the whole conversation about governance is now reduced to how the government relates to the media and oh but the media play an essential role. In american po
Into governance do you think its actually possible realistic to construct that multilayered governing algorithm and when youre so constrained by short political cycle mechanism design. Is more concerned with. What constraints you place on the politicians officials what what scope for the exercise of power they have once theyre in office its up to them to operate within those constraints that is the mechanism design doesnt tell them what they should do with office its interesting that you stress the sort of a limiting part and i think thats actually a very cultural american thing about. They do about limiting power but obviously when a politician arm a new government comes into office it also needs a certain freedom to. And secured its own policies how would you ballance those out thats where constraints on. On what a particular official can do come in. For example. Under the american system the government is not allowed to. Tell the newspaper not to write. On a subject unless unless it