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Turkey Decides : The Effects of the 2011 Turkish Elections on Domestic and Foreign Policy
Rumi ForumBiographies: Joshua W. Walker is a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund based in Washington, D.C. He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and will join the Jepson School faculty as an assistant professor in in August, 2011. He will teach international and cross-cultural leadership courses. Gönül Tol received her B.A. degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2001 and her M.A. degree in Political Science frRead moreShow less
Biographies:
Joshua W. Walker is a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund based in Washington, D.C. He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and will join the Jepson School faculty as an assistant professor in in August, 2011. He will teach international and cross-cultural leadership courses.
Gönül Tol received her B.A. degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2001 and her M.A. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2002. Her master's thesis, entitled Beyond Systemic Approaches: The Study of Irredentism, is on the role of ethnic identity on foreign policy making with a special emphasis on the former Yugoslavia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida International University in 2008. Her dissertation, The Rise of Islamism among Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, is a comparative study of the Milli Görüs Movement in Germany and the Netherlands. She conducted extensive field research in these countries between 2004 and 2007. She was awarded a graduate fellowship at the Middle East Studies Center at Florida International University where she also served as the Director of Model United Nations. She has also worked for TUSIAD US as their Program Manager. She is the Director of the Center for Turkish Studies at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Her focus of research is Islamist movements in Western Europe and the Middle East and their radicalization processes, immigration, ethnic and religious identity formation and institutionalization of political Islam. She has served as a panelist, chair and moderator in several international conferences. She has given lectures on Turkish politics, Muslims in Europe and political Islam at American University, Johns Hopkins University, Florida International University, the University of Kent, and TOBB ETÜ. She has publications on the Turkish immigrant community in Western Europe, EU immigration policies, Islam in Western Europe, and political Islam.
Matthew Duss is a Policy Analyst and Director of Middle East Progress at the Center for American Progress. Matthew received a master's degree in Middle East studies from the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Washington. Matthew's writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Forward, and The Guardian. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Fox News, and Al Jazeera, as well as numerous radio programs.
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Ali H. Aslan is Washington Correspondent of Turkey's largest daily newspaper Zaman.
Prior to starting his current position in Washington in 1997, Mr. Aslan worked at Zaman's Istanbul headquarters in various capacities including Deputy News Editor. Currently, Mr. Aslan also writes a weekly column on international relations for Zaman and its English language affiliate, Today's Zaman. Mr. Aslan is a frequent contributor to the Turkish national television network Samanyolu (STV), and weekly news magazine Aksiyon covering international relations with special focus on the US and Turkey. Mr. Aslan was born in Adana, Turkey, and holds a BA from Turkey's prestigious Bogazici (Bosphorus) University. He and his wife live in Fairfax, VA with their two sons.
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Joshua W. Walker is a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund based in Washington, D.C. He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and will join the Jepson School faculty as an assistant professor in in August, 2011. He will teach international and cross-cultural leadership courses.
Gönül Tol received her B.A. degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2001 and her M.A. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2002. Her master's thesis, entitled Beyond Systemic Approaches: The Study of Irredentism, is on the role of ethnic identity on foreign policy making with a special emphasis on the former Yugoslavia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida International University in 2008. Her dissertation, The Rise of Islamism among Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, is a comparative study of the Milli Görüs Movement in Germany and the Netherlands. She conducted extensive field research in these countries between 2004 and 2007. She was awarded a graduate fellowship at the Middle East Studies Center at Florida International University where she also served as the Director of Model United Nations. She has also worked for TUSIAD US as their Program Manager. She is the Director of the Center for Turkish Studies at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Her focus of research is Islamist movements in Western Europe and the Middle East and their radicalization processes, immigration, ethnic and religious identity formation and institutionalization of political Islam. She has served as a panelist, chair and moderator in several international conferences. She has given lectures on Turkish politics, Muslims in Europe and political Islam at American University, Johns Hopkins University, Florida International University, the University of Kent, and TOBB ETÜ. She has publications on the Turkish immigrant community in Western Europe, EU immigration policies, Islam in Western Europe, and political Islam.
Matthew Duss is a Policy Analyst and Director of Middle East Progress at the Center for American Progress. Matthew received a master's degree in Middle East studies from the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Washington. Matthew's writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Forward, and The Guardian. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Fox News, and Al Jazeera, as well as numerous radio programs.
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Moderator:
Ali H. Aslan is Washington Correspondent of Turkey's largest daily newspaper Zaman.
Prior to starting his current position in Washington in 1997, Mr. Aslan worked at Zaman's Istanbul headquarters in various capacities including Deputy News Editor. Currently, Mr. Aslan also writes a weekly column on international relations for Zaman and its English language affiliate, Today's Zaman. Mr. Aslan is a frequent contributor to the Turkish national television network Samanyolu (STV), and weekly news magazine Aksiyon covering international relations with special focus on the US and Turkey. Mr. Aslan was born in Adana, Turkey, and holds a BA from Turkey's prestigious Bogazici (Bosphorus) University. He and his wife live in Fairfax, VA with their two sons.
See full event here:
http://rumiforum.org/thursday-609-turkey-decides-the-effects-of-the-2011-turkish-elections-on-domestic-and-foreign-policy/
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