Soner Çağaptay

Monday, November 14, 2016

Topic: Turkish foreign policy on ISIS, Kurds and the Syrian civil war

Cagaptay
Soner Cagaptay
is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Habertürk and Jane’s Defense Weekly. He is a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey’s oldest and most influential English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN’s Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN-Turk and al-Hurra.

A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale and Princeton on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. His spring 2003 course on modern Turkish history was the first offered by Yale in three decades. From 2006-2007, he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. He also served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Dr. Cagaptay is the recipient of numerous honors, grants, and chairs, among them the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships, as well as the Ertegun chair at Princeton. He also served as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. In 2012, Dr.Cagaptay was named an American Turkish Society Young Society Leader.

He is the author of the book Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk? (2006) as well as the forthcoming book Turkey Rising: The 21st Century’s First Muslim Power (2014).

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