He also headed the initiative called "European Movement 2002"[6][7] which aimed at putting pressure on the lawmaker to speed up political reforms necessary to begin the negotiation phase with the EU.

In December 2008, he developed the idea of an online apology campaign addressed to Armenians and supported by a number of Turkish intellectuals as well as over 32.454 citizens of Turkey.

From 1989 to 1994, while working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees he performed the duties of vice-director of the Informal Consultations consisting of Western countries, the IOM and the UNHCR.

Later on the Informal Consultations went independent from the UN and became the International Center for Migration Policy Development,[8] based in Vienna and headed by the late Jonas Widgren.

[10] Aktar collaborates with Açık Radyo, the longest-running community radio in Turkey since its inception in 1995, through his weekly "Nereye Doğru" (Where To) show, .

After Dink was assassinated on 19 January 2007, Cengiz Aktar, along with other Turkish scholars, decided to launch a petition calling for an apology of the Turks towards the Armenians.

As he elaborates in his latest book, ideologically speaking, the regime surfs on the predispositions of the social fabric that date back to the Armenian Genocide and other mass crimes.

In a normal country, a regime which has violated countless times the laws and the Constitution, which has created an unprecedented institutional and social wreckage and continue to do so, should have been tried accordingly.

Obviously, present day's unlawful political, economic and social practices appear trivial compared to past genocides, pogroms, mass killings and spoliations.

Finally, the consequences of the failure, although a tad early to conclude, could be likened to a lose–lose situation which goes well beyond the parties’ interests per se, to encompass Islam's synergy and coexistence with the rest of the world.

The bellicose rhetoric and actions of last years against a number of EU countries, politicians, and citizens are strong signals of this centrifugal drive.

All things considered, Ankara's modus operandi contradicts EU's norms, standards, values and principles which simply constitute obstacles to the “smooth” functioning of the regime.