Soner Cagaptay
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
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]
Career
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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.[1] From 2006 to 2007, he was Ertegun Professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.[2]
He also currently serves as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute.[3]
Honors
Among his honors are the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships, as well as the Ertegun chair at Princeton.[4]
In the Media
Cagaptay 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.[5] He also is a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review, the oldest English version of Turkish news in print.[6] In addition, he has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN Turk, and al-Hurra.[7]
Books
References
- ^ a b c Expert biography http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=3
- ^ 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
- ^ Articles by Soner Cagaptay http://www.cagaptay.com/articles/
- ^ 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+
- ^ 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
Articles
- Turkey's Anti-European Rhetoric Challenges U.S. Policy
- Ending Turkey's Nightmare
- Turkey’s new a la carte nerve
- Arab revolt makes Turkey a regional power
- New Kemalism: Religious but not conservative
- Meet NATO's Opt-out Member
- Turkish Exceptionalism
- Why Turkey will emerge as the leader of the Muslim World
- NATO's Turkey Problem
- Regenerating the U.S.-Turkey Partnership
- Sultan of the Muslim World
- Here’s what happens to the eye you don’t use
- How Turkey is Changing
- Turkey under the AKP: Neither a European, nor regional power]
- Turkey After the Constitutional Reform:Implications for Washington
- Turkey's Choice
- Torn Turkey, European Turkey
- Turkey's Clash of Civilizations
- Who is Afraid of Turkey
- More articles by Soner Cagaptay
Video and Audio
- The Future of the U.S.-Turkey Relationship-CAP
- Obama And The Muslim World - CBS
- Obamas visit is about Turkeys European-ness - Russia Today
- Jihadist Radicalization: Coming to a Theater Near You?
- An Obama Policy toward Turkey: Continuity or Change?
- Turkish Election Results: More or Less Stability?
- The Future of the AKP Government and U.S.-Turkish Relations