Research Turkey is organising a book launch and public panel on the New Turkey, mainly shaped after the 15 July 2016 coup attempt.
The event will take place between 7-9 PM on Tuesday 15th November 2016 in Committee Room 8, House of Commons.
This lecture will be kindly chaired by Ezgi Başaran and is kindly hosted by Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP. For those who are willing to attend should note security checks are required to enter the House of Commons. We kindly ask you to arrive at 6.30PM to allow the event to start and end on time.
More on speakers:
Ezgi Başaran is a prominent journalist and a columnist in Turkey. She started working in a news channel, NTV, while she was a freshman in Marmara University Journalism Department. After graduating, Ezgi became a junior reporter in 2004 for Hürriyet, a daily of the Doğan Group and Turkey’s most widely read newspaper. In 2010, Ezgi left Hürriyet for Radikal daily and was appointed managing editor of the paper’s news website Radikal.com.tr in 2011. In 2013, Ezgi became the editor-in-chief of Radikal. She is now an academic visitor at St. Antony’s College,University of Oxford, focusing on the Kurdish issue.
Dr. Simon A. Waldman is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London. He obtained his MA and PhD from the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, KCL, having earlier read Politics and Sociology at Brunel University. Simon’s research focuses on international diplomacy towards the Middle East, statebuilding and leadership in the region, Turkish history and politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict from a historical perspective. He is the head of the Turkish Studies Research Group at King’s College London. Simon’s latest book isAnglo –American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Palgrave MacMillan), and he is the co-author of the forthcoming The New Turkey and its Discontents (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2016).
Emre Çalışkan is reading for a DPhil in International Relations at St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. His dissertation explores the role of Turkish Islamic non-state actors in Turkey’s foreign policy making in Sub-Saharan Africa. His other interests include Turkey’s transnational Islam, Turkish foreign policy, and Islamic NGOs in International Relations. He holds an MA in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and is the co-author of The ‘New Turkey’ and its Discontents