Okay. Thank you, those who came this morning. Thank you for staying. Thank everyone else who has just arrived. Im barbara slaven. I direct the future of Iran Initiative here at the atlantic council. We just had a really fascinating discussion with the e3 ambassadors and the Eu Ambassador about the iran nuclear deal. And the challenges that are currently being presented to it from the United States. So were now going to look at the attitudes of the region toward the iran nuclear deal. Were going to examine whether there is support, strong support for the agreement, reservations about the agreement, concerns about u. S. Policy or support for u. S. Policy on the part of some of the main regional players. And im really delighted. I have three fabulous panelists to discuss these issues. First, were going to hear from hussein, senior resident scholar at, forgive me, iranians, the Arab Gulf States Institute in washington. Arab gulf states. Its a modifier of the states, not the gulf. Okay. Oka
That Seta Foundation for political, economic and social research hosted a discussion in washington on the 2015 failed coup attempt in turkey focusing on the causes and lasting geopolitical consequences. Its 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Distinguished guests, friends and colleagues, welcome. My name is kadir, im the executive director of the Seta Foundation at washington, d. C. We would like to welcome you all on behalf of of our institution. Thank you for joining us today and this important conference at the anniversary of july 15 coup attempt. This conference will debate a subject that continues to define turkeys domestic and Foreign Policy in significant ways. The last years coup attempt exposed extent to which the followers of gulen would go to grab power at the expense of popular will. The attempt made it clear for turkey that this organization was no longer a movement with networks within the state bureaucracy, but had not applied terror as a means to achieve its goals by ev
Foundation for political, economic, and social research. Good morning everyone. Distinguished guests, friends, and colleagues, welcome. Im the executive director of the Seta Foundation at washington, d. C. We would like to welcome you all on behalf of our institution. Thank you for joining us today important conference of the july 15 coup attempt. This conference will debate a subject that continues to define turkeys domestic and Foreign Policy in significant ways. The last years coup attempt exposed the extent to which the followers went to grab power at the expense of popular will. The attempt made it clear for turkey that this organization as no longer a moment with networks in the state democracy but now apply terror as a means to achieve its goals by attacking its own people. Turkey continues to fight. Gainst this unique challenge today it will be fortunate and a unique opportunity to hear from the general guler among us in the audience the commander of the Gendarmerie Forces in t
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach this year than weve seen in the recent past. The president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration to focus on our Nuclear Weapons program. This is a portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has also requested robust funding for the cleanup of Nuclear Waste l
The july the 5th attempt. One of the difficulties we faced in turkey is explain this event to our international counterparts, its really well complicated and difficult to stress and one of the difficulties and mysteries of this event is also how turkey fighting against the terrorist organization in the aftermath of the coup attempt and how turkey is dealing with both challenges in this new era. Of course, both are very difficult and we have to go off the background to understand this. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy in the aftermath of july the 15th coup attempt. And also, some background about this development. So we will have four speaks, jeffrey, who is the distinguished fellow at Washington Institute for u. S. Policy, our second speaker will be profess or do nae from the university, Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is colonel richard houston, senior u. S. Army advise are and member of planning at u. S