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Soner Cagaptay
Director, Turkish Research Program
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Soner Cagaptay is a senior 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 Wall Street Journal, Middle East Quarterly, Middle Eastern Studies, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek. He also 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 currently serves 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 serves as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.
Expertise: Turkey, U.S.-Turkish relations, northern Iraq/Iraqi Kurds, Turkey and Islam, Turkey-EU relations, Cyprus, Turkey-NATO relations, modern Turkish history, the late Ottoman Empire, and the Balkans
Current Research: The historical roots of Turkish secularism, the military as a safety valve for secular democracy, Turkey's recent experience with Islamist parties in government, and the political liberalization associated with Turkey's attempted EU accession.
Languages: German, French, Spanish, Bosnian, Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew, Azerbaijani
Selected Outside Publications:
• "Türklüge Geçis: Modern Türkiye'de Göç ve Din" Haldun Gülalp (der.) Vatandaslik ve Etnik Çatisma ["Transition to Turkishness: Migration and Religion in Modern Turkey" in Haldun Gulalp (ed.) Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict] (Istanbul: Metis, 2007).
• "Passage to Turkishness: Immigration and Religion in Modern Turkey," Haldun Gulalp, ed., Nationalism and Citizenship (London: Routledge, 2006).
• Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who Is a Turk? (London: Routledge, 2006). Read a review.
• "Where Goes the U.S.-Turkish Relationship?" Middle East Quarterly XI, no 4 (fall 2004).
• "Race, Assimilation and Kemalism: Turkish Nationalism and the Minorities in the 1930s," Middle Eastern Studies 40, no. 3 (May 2004)
• "Citizenship and Nationalism in Interwar Turkey," Nations and Nationalism 9, no. 4 (October 2003)
• "Kim Türk, Kim Vatandas? Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Vatandaslik Rejimi üzerine bir Çalisma," (Who Is Turkish, Who Is a Citizen? A Study on the Citizenship Regime of Early Turkish Republic) Toplum Bilim (Istanbul), no. 98 (Fall 2003)
• "The November 2002 Elections and Turkey's New Political Era," Middle East Review of International Affairs 6, no. 4 (December 2002)
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