{"id":4293,"date":"2026-09-17T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=4293"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:53:35","slug":"bilkent-ir-saus-and-cost-workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=4293","title":{"rendered":"Bilkent IR- SAUS and COST Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of International Relations at Bilkent University hosted two international workshops on September 12 and 13, 2026, bringing together over thirty scholars and policy practitioners from Europe, North America, and Asia. Organized in cooperation with the European Initiative for Security Studies, the Academic Workshop, \u201cSecurity Architectures Under Strain,\u201d and the Policy Workshop on \u201cGreat Power Politics and the Future of Alliances\u201d were co-sponsored by the COST Action NetSec and the Royal Danish Defense College. The two workshops were honoured by keynote addresses from Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador A. Berris Ekinci and Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Z. Levent G\u00fcmr\u00fck\u00e7\u00fc, who spoke respectively on \u201cEnergy, Connectivity and Economic Security in a Fragmented World\u201d and \u201cRethinking the NATO Summit in Ankara\u201d and by an opening address by Jurgis Vil\u010dinskas, Deputy Head of the European Delegation to T\u00fcrkiye, on \u201cProspects for Deeper EU-T\u00fcrkiye Cooperation on Security and Defence.\u201d Together, the two days reflected the Department\u2019s continued commitment to convening the scholarly and policy communities working on the most consequential questions of contemporary international security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g-hrcw2iw\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g-hrcw2iw gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-4.23.08-PM-1.jpeg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g-zc2dnpd\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g-zc2dnpd gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-4.24.00-PM.jpeg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of International Relations at Bilkent University hosted two international workshops on September 12 and 13, 2026, bringing together over thirty scholars and policy practitioners from Europe, North America, and Asia. Organized in cooperation with the European Initiative for Security Studies, the Academic Workshop, \u201cSecurity Architectures Under Strain,\u201d and the Policy Workshop on \u201cGreat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4295,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4293\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ir.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}