The “Religious Communities in World War I” Symposium, jointly organized as part of the “1914-Peace-2014” series by the Vienna-based Friede-Institut für Dialog, JWF, and the Austrian Katholische Militaerseelsorge, took place…
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Panel Highlights Turkey and Italy's Dialogue Initiatives
JWF’s Intercultural Dialogue Platform (IDP) organized a panel titled “Sharing Coexistence Experiences: The Example of Italy and Turkey.” The event took place at Santa Cecilia Monastery in Rome. (more…)
Scholars: Misconceptions of Islam Still Abound
The subject of misconceptions of Islam dominated the debates at the international conference organized by JWF and Fatih University in Istanbul on December 7-8, 2012. (more…)
Norwegian Christian Leader: Islamophobia Not Just Fear, Includes Hatred
Gunnar Stalsett, the bishop emeritus of Oslo, warned about a hatred of Islam at a joint panel discussion organized by the Abant Platform and Fountain Magazine in Istanbul on Friday,…
Academic Conference Strengthens Ties between China and Turkey
Scholars from China’s top universities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences came to Istanbul to meet with their Turkish counterparts for a symposium on May 22. The event was…
Turkish and Syrian Journalists Unite at Workshop
Turkish and Syrian journalists met at a recent workshop organized by JWF’s Medialog Platform. The program included presentations and exchanges of ideas, noting that in spite of political divisions between…
Kurdish, Turkish Journalists Call for Dialogue
Kurdish and Turkish journalists met in Istanbul on Saturday to discuss the role of the media and put forward suggestions for eliminating misconceptions and prejudices that exist both among Iraqi…
Turkish and Egyptian Intellectuals Analyze EU Bid at 16th Abant Meeting
The 16th Abant Platform meeting brought together 50 prominent Egyptian and Turkish intellectuals at the Istanbul Grand Cevahir Hotel on December 15-16, 2007. The meeting, titled “Turkey: A Bridge between…
Abant Platform Brings Together Intellectuals from France and Turkey
Organized by JWF’s Abant Platform, the second “Turkey-France Conversations,” the first of which was held in Paris in 2006, began yesterday at the Istanbul Hilton. During the two days of…
Abant Platform Meeting Focuses on Islam, Democracy, and Secularism
The 7th meeting of the Abant Platform, one of the leading civil society initiatives in Turkey, opened in Washington, DC, on April 19, 2004. This marks the first time the…