Turkey and The Changing Politics in The Middle East

AIPAC—Pacific Northwest Region presents

Honored Guest Speaker

                                Dr. Soner Cagaptay

                              
The Pacific Northwest Region of AIPAC will bring esteemed historian Dr. Soner Cagaptay to Mosaic Law Congregation and the KOH Library and Cultural Center on Saturday, June 29, 2013 to speak on “Turkey and The Changing Politics in The Middle East”. Dr. Cagaptay will speak briefly in the Mosaic Law Sanctuary before Musaf Service. After Kiddush Luncheon he will elaborate on his topic and entertain questions from the audience in the KOH Library and Cultural Center.

Dr. Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The Washington Institute’s mission is to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and promote the policies that secure them.”

Dr. Cagaptay has written extensively on U.S. – Turkey relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism. He has published in scholarly journals and major international print media, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Jane's Defense Weekly, and Newsweek Türkiye. He also is a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest and most influential English-language paper. He 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. . In 2012 he was named an American Turkish Society Young Society Leader.

Please plan to join us for a wonderful opportunity to hear this international expert on Turkey, its close ties with the United States and a new relationship with Israel on Saturday, June 29^th in the KOH Library and Cultural Center starting at 12:45pm. Dr. Cagapty’s presentation will be open to the community.