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'''Soner Çağaptay''' is the director of the [[Turkish Research Program]] at The [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]].<ref name="washingtoninstitute.org">Expert biography http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=3</ref> He has a background in history, and is an expert on [[US-Turkish relations]], [[Turkish politics]], and [[Turkish nationalism]].
'''Soner Çağaptay''' is the director of the [[Turkish Research Program]] at The [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]].<ref name="washingtoninstitute.org">Expert biography http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=3</ref> He has a background in history, and is an expert on [[US-Turkish relations]], [[Turkish politics]], and [[Turkish nationalism]].
== Biography ==
== Education and Career ==
Cagaptay received a Ph.D. in history from [[Yale University]] in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism.
Cagaptay received a Ph.D. in history from [[Yale University]] in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism.



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Soner Çağaptay is the director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.[1] He has a background in history, and is an expert on US-Turkish relations, Turkish politics, and Turkish nationalism.

Education and Career

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.[1]

Among his honors are the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships, as well as the Ertegun chair at Princeton.[2]

He has been the instructor for 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.[1] From 2006 to 2007, he was Ertegun Professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. At present he is a visiting professor at the ]]Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]] at Georgetown University.[3]

He is the author of many op-ed pieces, which have appeared in publications such as: The Wall Street Journal, Jane's Defense Weekly, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Newsweek Türkiye, The Washington Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, and many others.[4] He also is a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review, the oldest English version of Turkish news in print.[5] In addition, he has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN Turk, and al-Hurra.[6]

He also currently serves as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.[7]

Books

References

  1. ^ a b c Expert biography http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=3
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Georgetown University Directory http://contact.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&NetID=sc374
  4. ^ Articles by Soner Cagaptay http://www.cagaptay.com/articles/
  5. ^ Hürriyet Daily News - Soner Cagaptay http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/i.php?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&start_date=&end_date=&orderby=&author=soner-cagaptay&byline=&c=&as_eq=&num=&searchbutton=+SEARCH+
  6. ^ TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - Keynote Speaker: Soner Cagaptay, biography http://www.tepav.org.tr/eng/admin/dosyabul/upload/baskanlik_secimleri_program.pdf
  7. ^ Biography/Soner Çağaptay'ın Özgeçmişi http://www.cagaptay.com/about/

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