Soner Cagaptay (; born in 1970) is a Turkish-American

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based in the

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. He is director of the Turkish Research Program at the

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.Expert biography http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/cagaptay-soner He is a historian by training and is an expert on Turkey–United States relations,

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, and

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Education

Cagaptay received his Ph.D. degree in history from

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in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on

Career

Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Cagaptay has taught courses at

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

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, and

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in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. From 2006-2007, he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies. He was a visiting professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at

and has spoken at

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. He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the

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. Cagaptay has received the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships. In 2012 he was named an American Turkish Society Young Society Leader. He is the author of four books on modern Turkey.

In the media

Cagaptay has written extensively on Turkey–United States relations; Turkish domestic politics;

; Turkey's rise as an economic power and Ankara's Middle East policy, publishing in scholarly journals and international print media including the

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, and

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. He is a regular columnist for

Hürriyet Daily News The ''Hürriyet Daily News'', formerly ''Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review'' and ''Turkish Daily News'', is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961. The paper was bought by the Doğan Media Group in 2001 and ...

, Turkey's oldest English-language paper, and a contributor to

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's Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly in interviews and documentaries speaking with

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, al-Jazeera,

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, and

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. His latest book, ''Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East'' was published in September 2019 by I.B. Tauris. On February 16, 2022, he testified at a Helsinki Commission briefing entitled "Conflict of Interest? Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Turkey."

Books

*''A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces'' (2021). London: I.B. Tauris. . *''Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East'' (2019). London: I.B. Tauris. .

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1121097111 *''The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey'' (2017). London I.B. Tauris. .

974880239. *''The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power'' (2014). Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books. .

869736354 *''Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?'' (2006). Milton Park, UK: Taylor & Francis. .

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Academic papers

* Cagaptay, Soner (2013). "Defining Turkish Power: Turkey as a Rising Power Embedded in the Western International System". ''Turkish Studies''. 14 (4): 797–811. doi:10.1080/14683849.2013.861110.

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1468-3849 * Cagaptay, Soner (2007). "Race, Assimilation and Kemalism: Turkish Nationalism and the Minorities in the 1930s". ''Middle Eastern Studies''. 40 (3): 86–101. doi:10.1080/0026320042000213474.

0026-3206 * Çağaptay, Soner (2007). "Reconfiguring the Turkish nation in the 1930s". ''Nationalism and Ethnic Politics''. 8 (2): 67–82. doi:10.1080/13537110208428662.

1353-7113 * Çağaptay, Soner (2003). "Citizenship policies in interwar Turkey*". ''Nations and Nationalism''. 9 (4): 601–619. doi:10.1111/1469-8219.00129.

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References

External links

Soner Cagaptay's personal website
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