Bettina Emir is a project coordinator at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. CATS is the curator of an international network of think tanks and research institutions working on Turkey.
Previously, she built up the programme "Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies", which coordinates bi-national research projects at German and Turkish universities with the common goal of providing analysis and information from academia to an interested public.
She holds a Magistra Artium degree in Social Anthropology and Sociology from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her fascination for Turkey was further fueled by a one-year stay at Bogazici University in Istanbul.
During her three years in Istanbul after university, she worked in various contexts, including the Refugee and Migrant Service at Caritas International, supporting refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa.
Policy Project: The (potential) Impact of the European Green Deal on German-Turkish Economic Relations
The project examines the impact of the European Green Deal on trade and economic relations between Turkey and Germany, the potential for cooperation between the two countries, and ways to support the Turkish economy in its green transformation. These questions are embedded in the wider framework that governs trade between the EU and Turkey: The EU-Turkey Customs Union, whose modernisation has long been called for, could increasingly incorporate sustainable aspects into the economic relationship. As this seems feasible only in the medium or long term, the project also calls for intermediate steps that can have an impact in the short term and serve to prepare the legal ground for a revision of the Customs Union. To this end, the perspectives of various economic and political actors from Turkey, Germany and the European Union will be compiled and compared.
Read Bettina's piece here: What Are the Implications of the European Green Deal for EU-Turkey Relations? - Center for Applied Turkey Studies (cats-network.eu)
