"Students hit political hotspots
By: Robert Silverblatt
..... The 12-person trip to Turkey was organized by the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP), which seeks to develop new means of dialogue in and about the conflict-ridden Middle East. Like the Amahoro project, NIMEP is a program of Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership
(IGL).
Previous NIMEP delegations have conducted similarly structured fact-finding trips to Israel and the West Bank, Iran, and Egypt.
The group decided on Turkey due to the complex developments in its domestic politics.
The purpose of the trip was to "allow students to get a hands-on, birds-eye view of the complexity of Turkish politics," said Matan Chorev, a first-year student at the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy and one of the trip's organizers. "
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