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

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

based in the

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. He is director of the Turkish Research Program at the

Washington Institute for Near East Policy The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI, also known simply as The Washington Institute) is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East. WINE ...

.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 Normal diplomatic relations were established between the Republic of Turkey and the United States of America in 1927. Relations after World War II evolved from the Second Cairo Conference in December 1943 and Turkey's entrance into World War II o ...

Turkish politics The politics of Turkey take place in the framework of a constitutional republic and presidential system, with various levels and branches of power. Turkey's political system is based on a separation of powers. Executive power is exercised by th ...

, and

Turkish nationalism Turkish nationalism ( tr, Türk milliyetçiliği) is a political ideology that promotes and glorifies the Turkish people, as either a Turkey#Demographics, national, Turkish people, ethnic, or Turkish language, linguistic group. The term "ultrana ...

Education

Cagaptay received his

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in history from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on

. Besides

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and

Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

, his research languages include French,

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, Bosnian,

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, Azerbaijani, and

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

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 research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

, and

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...

on 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 Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector". Persons named Edmund include: People Kings ...

. 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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International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It had the aim of becoming "the world's first global newspaper" and could fairly be said ...

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, and

Habertürk ''Habertürk'' (literally: "News Turkish"), abbreviated as ''HT'', was a high-circulation Turkish newspaper. It was established on March 1, 2009 by Ciner Media Group, drawing on the brand of Ciner's Habertürk TV. It ceased publication on 5 Jul ...

. 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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, 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

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. On February 16, 2022, he testified at a Helsinki Commission briefing entitled "Conflict of Interest? Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Turkey."

Books

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

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1121097111 *Çaǧaptay, Soner. (2017). ''The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey''. London. .

974880239. *Çaǧaptay, Soner. (2014). ''The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-first Century's First Muslim power''. Lincoln. .

869736354 *Cagaptay, Soner. (2006). ''Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?''. Milton: 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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