Book Talk: “Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation”

Speaker: Vahram Ter-Matevosyan (American University of Armenia)

Discussant: Cemil Boyraz (İstanbul Bilgi University Department of International Relations)

The talk is organized by İstanbul Bilgi University Department of International Relations on the new book of Vahram Ter-Matevosyan called “Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation”.

Date: 29 April 2019
Time: 15.00-18.00
Place: santralistanbul Campus, ÇSM-203

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan:
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan specializes in Turkish domestic and foreign policy, Regional Security and Conflicts in the post-Soviet Space. He has received his Dr. Philosophy Degree from the University of Bergen (Norway), Master’s degree from Lund University (Sweden), Candidate of historical sciences degree from the Institute of Oriental Studies and Yerevan State University (Armenia). He was Visiting Professor at Duke University, NC (2016), Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, CA (2009-2010) and Visiting Doctoral Student at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2005). He authored an award-winning monograph “Islam in the Social and Political Life of Turkey, 1970-2001” in 2008 and co-authored “History of Turkish Republic” in 2014. His research articles have been published in “Nations and Nationalism”, “Europe-Asia Studies”, “Turkish Studies”, “Middle Eastern Studies”, “Insight Turkey”, “Eurasian Geography and Economics”, “Turkish Review”, “Caucasus  Survey”, “Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies”, “Iran and the Caucasus”, “Diaspora Studies”, “Études Arméniennes Contemporaines”, “Caucasus Analytical Digest”, “UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Program Occasional Papers”, “Contemporary Eurasia” etc