Soner Cagaptay
Turkey’s Elections: Exploring the Political Landscape and Future Implications
Summary
Soner Cagaptay joins Carly Maisel in conversation about the state of the election process in Turkey today and what the impact of this process is on the country as a whole, both today and in the future.
Soner Cagaptay
Soner Cagaptay, a historian by training, wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College and is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute. He has written extensively on US-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, BBC, and CNN-Turk. His latest book is A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces. After training in India, Dr. Cagaptay was certified as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200 in 2018.
Carly Maisel
Carly Maisel is the global CEO of Kirsh Philanthropies.