Tectonic Shifts in Turkey's Domestic and Foreign Policies: How Did it Come to This?
Birol A. Yesilada is a professor of political science and chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. An expert on Turkish politics and the European Union, he is the author of EU-Turkey Relations in the 21st Century, Islamization of Turkey Under the AKP Rule, and The Emerging European Union, among others.
Yesilada has been an invited policy consultant at various departments of the U.S. government, the Council on Foreign Relations, the RAND Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Nathan Associates, Barclays Capital, and the World Bank; he is also an academic associate of the Atlantic Council. In 2003, the White House invited him to take part on a commission that drafted the new constitution of Afghanistan.
In his Athenaeum talk, Yesilada will examine how Turkey, once a model of democratic development, fell apart in front of the world’s eyes. What are the underlying causes of the breakdown of democracy in Turkey and what are the likely consequences of recent political developments for Turkey’s place in the European Union and NATO?
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