THE TRANSCRIBED SPEECH OF FERIDE INAN AT THE CONFERENCE
Abstract
Thank you very much.Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I would like tobegin my talk by thanking the organizers of this event for having me here,and for organizing this very fruitful discussion.Today, I would like to talk about a project we have done as part ofthe EU funded “Armenia-Turkey Normalization Process” (ATNP)program, Round 2. Our research is related to the political economy of theregion, the topic of this panel.Let me first briefly to talk about the first round of ATNP where welooked at sectoral opportunities for economic cooperation betweenArmenia and Turkey. We chose the IT and tourism sectors that we hadidentified as promising areas for cooperation in a previous TEPAV studyon product and sectoral complementarities between Armenia and Turkey,especially eastern Turkey.