American Turkish Council: The American Turkish Council (ATC) is a Business Association dedicated to enhancing the promotion of US-Turkish Commercial, Defense, Technology and Cultural Relations. As one of the leading business associations in the United States, American Turkish Council (ATC) is dedicated to effectively strengthening US-Turkish relations through the promotion of commercial, defense, technology and cultural relations. Its diverse membership includes Fortune 500, US and Turkish companies, multinationals, nonprofit organizations and individuals with an interest in US-Turkish relations. Guided by member interests, ATC strives to enhance the growing ties between the US and Turkey by initiating and facilitating efforts to increase investment and trade between the two countries. CPS Chief Executive Officer and Board Member Tulû Gümüstekin is a board member of ATC and chairs the EU Committee of this association.

http://www.americanturkishcouncil.org/

Friends of Europe: Friends of Europe (FoE) is a prominent Brussels-based think-tank for EU policy analysis and debate that is independent of the EU institutions and without national or political bias. Friends of Europe's goal since 1999 has been to stimulate new thinking on the future of Europe and widen the EU debate by making it more controversial and lively, by covering a large spectrum of issues, by promoting the use of media technologies and by encouraging media involvement. CPS is a member of Friends of Europe.

http://www.friendsofeurope.org/

YASED: The International Investors Association of Turkey (YASED), founded in 1980, is a private non-profit and non-governmental organization whose members are business professionals from international companies operating in Turkey. The mission of YASED is to promote proactively a business environment which matches the best practices in the world, to foster free trade of goods and services, free competition, investment and movement of capital. CPS is a member of YASED.

http://www.yased.org.tr/page.asp?pageid=0

GYIAD: The Young Executives and Businessmen's Association (GYIAD), founded in 1986 in Istanbul, is a non-governmental civil servants organization that generates principled ideas around national social and political matters, undertakes and performs activities to support such ideas and issues. CPS Chief Executive Officer and Board Member Tulû Gümüstekin is a board member of GYIAD and the chairwoman of GYIAD's Foreign Affairs Commission.