26-27 January 2009
Pennsylvania- USA      

Workshop
Participation in “Workshop on Multidimensional Peace Operations.  Concepts and Doctrine Development” hosted by the US Army War  College Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at   Carlisle Barracks, PA., in the framework of “Challenges Project”, to which SAM is affiliated as a partner institution.

29 January 2009 
New York- USA                   

Meeting   
Meeting of the partner institutions of “Challenges of Peacekeeping Operations Project Partners” in New York. 

14-21 March 2009
Ankara

Visit
Upon the recommendation of Alon Ben-Meir, Professor at NYU  Global Affairs Studies Center, visit to SAM by a group consisting of nine academicians and journalists affiliated within various universities and think-tanks in the United States. 

31 March 2009
Ankara

Visit
Visit of Mohammed Reza Jabbari, General Director of the Iranian  Strategic Council for Foreign Relations, Ambassador Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour from the same institution.

20 April 2009
Ankara

Briefing
TFP- Briefing to group from the Pakistan National Defense University.

1 June 2009 
Ankara 

Meeting
Meeting with the participation of Fevzi Şanverdi, Chairman of the  Turkey-Libya Interparliamentary Friendship Group, Adil El Hadi El Mişergı, Chairman of Libya-Turkey Friendship Association in Trablus, Muhammed Recep Tarniş, Head of Cultural Affairs of the Association, Mohamed A. Zenati, Charge d’Affairs of the Libyan Embassy in Ankara and Sedigh M. Suliman, Counselor of the Libyan Embassy in Ankara.

22-23 July 2009 
Istanbul

Rapporteurship
Rapporteurship at the Silk Road-2009: General/ Admiral Summit organized by the Partnership for Peace Training Center  with the theme “NATO at 60 and Cooperation with Partners”. 

11-14 September 2009
Geneva-Switzerland 

International Meeting
Participation in the annual Meeting of the Think-Tanks operating in the Network of  Near East and South Asia (NESA). 

11-14 September 2009
Geneva-Switzerland 

International Conference
Participation in the international conference entitled “The New Geopolitics” organized by the International Strategic Studies Institution.

11 November 2009  
New York- USA

International Meeting
Network meeting of the “Challenges of Peace Operations into the 21st Century” project which consists of selected think-tanks from 18 countries.

12-13 November 2009
New York- USA

International Meeting
Participation in the Second Annual Forum Meeting of the project of “Challenges of Peace Operations into the 21st Century”.

18-19 November 2009
Istanbul

Forum
VI. Turkish-Italian Forum (TURK-ITA) organized by SAM, UniCredit Bankasi and Limes with the participation of Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Mr. Ahmet Davutoğlu and his Italian counterpart H.E. Mr. Franco Frattini as well as various politicians, journalists, academicians and businessman.
Speech delivered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Ahmet Davutoğlu at the VI. Turkish-Italian Forum, 18 November 2009, Istanbul

18-21 November 2009
New Delhi- India 

International Meeting
Fifth General Plenary Meeting of the Regional Network of  Strategic Studies Centers organised by the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the U.S. Department of  Defense/National Defense University and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses of the Indian Ministry of Defence.

12-16 December 2009
Ankara 

Visit
Visit to Turkey by H.E. Mr. Ambassador Ma Zhengang,  
Chairman of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), together with a delegation from the same Institution.

17 December 2009 
Ankara

Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable Meeting at SAM with the participation of 
Otgonbayar Mashbat, Chairman of the International Security Center at the Mongolian Institute for Strategic Studies (MIIS).