Soner Cagaptay
Director of the Turkish Research Program,
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy


"Turkey's EU Path: How Long is the Journey?"

Wednesday, 20 September 2006
4:00 p.m,
206 Ingraham Hall


Sponsored by the Center for European Studies
European Union Center of Excellence
Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA)
Central Asian Studies Program
and the Center for Turkish Studies


Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of The Washington Institute Turkish Research Program. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals such as Middle East Quarterly, Middle Eastern Studies, and Nations and Nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay frequently writes commentary in major international print media including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Guardian, Der Spiegel, and La Stampa. 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. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University.