Soner Cagaptay
Soner Çağaptay is a Turkish-American political scientist based in the United States.[1] He is director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.[2] He is a historian by training and is an expert on Turkey–United States relations, Turkish politics, and Turkish nationalism.
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Education
Cagaptay received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism.
Besides English and Turkish, his research languages include French, German, Spanish, Bosnian, Hebrew, Azerbaijani, and Ottoman Turkish.[3]
Career
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).
Teaching
He has taught courses on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe at Princeton University and Yale University. His spring 2003 course on modern Turkish history was the first offered by Yale in three decades.[2] From 2006 to 2007, he was Ertegun Professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton.
He is a visiting professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.[4]
He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.[5]
Honors
Among his honors are the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships, as well as the Ertegun chair at Princeton.[6]
In 2012, he was named an American Turkish Society Young Society Leader.
In the media
Cagaptay has written extensively on Turkey–United States relations; Turkish domestic politics; Turkish nationalism; Turkey's rise as an economic power and Ankara's Middle East policy, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media. These include the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Times, International Herald Tribune, Jane's Defense Weekly, and Habertürk. 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, al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN-Turk.
Books
- Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who Is a Turk? Review, January 2006.
- The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power, February 2014.
Articles
- Turkey Fears a Shiite Alliance
- Turkey seeks to lock in long-term security
- Ankara's Middle East Policy Post Arab Spring
- The Impact of Syria's Refugees on Southern Turkey
- Erdogan's Empathy for Morsi
- Middle East reconfigured: Turkey vs. Iran vs. Saudi Arabia
- The Muslim Brotherhood's Fall Lands Turkey an Unexpected Ally: Kurds
- Balancing Iran: Ottoman Echoes
- Turkey's Jihadi Dilemma
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Videos
- The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors
- Islam and Secularism in Modern Turkey
- Political Islam: Where Is It Headed? - Dr. Soner Cagaptay
- Turkey: Will Protests at Home Affect Its Foreign Policy?
- Obama And The Muslim World - CBS
- Obamas visit is about Turkeys European-ness - Russia Today
References
- ↑ Sebastian Wojciechowski The modern terrorism and its forms 2007 Page 218 "Soner Cagaptay, a Turkish professor working in the United States,"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Expert biography http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/cagaptay-soner
- ↑ "http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/cagaptay-soner"
- ↑ Georgetown University Directory http://contact.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&NetID=sc374
- ↑ Biography/Soner Çağaptay'ın Özgeçmişi http://www.cagaptay.com/about/
- ↑ UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE (HELSINKI COMMISSION) HOLDS HEARING: THE 2007 TURKISH ELECTIONS http://www.csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContentRecords.ViewTranscript&ContentRecord_id=393&ContentType=H,B&ContentRecordType=B&CFID=1563668&CFTOKEN=16279496
