BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Middle Eastern Studies Pro gram present The Shattering Alliance: Turkish-American Relations and the Syrian Debacle \n\nTurkey has been a member of the Western camp\nand a loy al ally of the United States since 1946. But this strategic\npartnership i s now on the verge of total collapse due to the two countries’\ndiverging policy interests and preferences in Syria. Due to the ongoing\npartisan cr ises and ideological polarization on the domestic front\, and the\nlack of historical and political knowledge of the region\, the public debate on\n recent developments in northern Syria has been insufficient. \n\n\n\nIn th is respect\, a panel of experts\, under\nProf. Yüksel Sezgin’s moderation\ , will discuss: \n\n\n\nHow\nhave Turkish-American relations evolved in th e context of civil war in Syria? \n\nWhat\nhave been the changing policy p references of Turkish and American\nadministrations from Obama to Trump? \ n\nWho are\nthe YPG fighters? What do they want? \n\nWhat\nwill happen to ISIS? \; \n\nIs it\nstill possible to salvage Turkish-American relatio ns\, and find a peaceful\nsolution to the crisis in Syria? \n\n\n\nThe pan el will include Dr. Soner Cagaptay and Dr.\nAaron Stein. \n\n\n\nDr. Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of\nthe \;Turkish Re search Program \;at The Washington Institute. He has\nwritten extensiv ely on U.S.-Turkish relations\, Turkish domestic politics\, and\nTurkish n ationalism\, publishing in scholarly journals and major international\npri nt media\, \;including the \;Wall Street Journal\, \;Washingto n Post\, \;New York Times\, \;Foreign Affairs\, and \;The\nAtl antic. He appears regularly on Fox News\, CNN\, NPR\, BBC\, and\nCNN-Turk. His latest book\, \;Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the\ nMiddle East\, was\npublished in September 2019 by I.B. Tauris. \;\n\n \nDr. Aaron Stein is the Director of the Middle East Program and a 2019 T empleton Fellow\nat the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously\, Dr . Stein was a resident\nsenior fellow of the Atlantic Council\, where he m anaged their Turkey-related\nresearch program\, oversaw work on nonprolife ration in the Middle East with a\nfocus on Iran\, and researched non-state actors in the Middle East\, with a\nparticular focus on Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq. He is the author of Turkey's New Foreign Policy:\nDavutog lu\, the AKP\, and the Pursuit of Regional OrderWhitehall Papers\, 2015). Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, and Middle Eastern Stu dies Program Contact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information: hkarakas@s yr.edu \n\n \; DTEND:20191118T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260611T080224Z DTSTART:20191118T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Shattering Alliance: Turkish-American Relations and the Syrian Debacle UID:RFCALITEM639167473449779991 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Middle Eastern Studies Program

present

The Shatter ing Alliance: Turkish-American Relations and the Syrian Debacle

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Turkey has been a member of the Western camp\nand a loyal al ly of the United States since 1946. But this strategic\npartnership is now on the verge of total collapse due to the two countries’\ndiverging polic y interests and preferences in Syria. Due to the ongoing\npartisan crises and ideological polarization on the domestic front\, and the\nlack of hist orical and political knowledge of the region\, the public debate on\nrecen t developments in northern Syria has been insufficient.

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In this respect\, a panel of experts\, under\nProf. Yüksel Sezgin’s moderatio n\, will discuss:

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How\nhave Turkish-American relations evol ved in the context of civil war in Syria?

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What\nhave been the c hanging policy preferences of Turkish and American\nadministrations from O bama to Trump?

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Who are\nthe YPG fighters? What do they want?

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What\nwill happen to ISIS? \;

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Is it\nstill possibl e to salvage Turkish-American relations\, and find a peaceful\nsolution to the crisis in Syria?

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The panel will include Dr. Sone r Cagaptay and Dr.\nAaron Stein.

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< b>Dr. Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of \nthe \;Turkish Research Program \;at The Washington Institute. He has\nwritten extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations\, Turkish domestic pol itics\, and\nTurkish nationalism\, publishing in scholarly journals and ma jor international\nprint media\, \;including the \;Wall Street Journal\, \;Washington Post\, \;New York Times< /em>\, \;Foreign Affairs\, and \;The\nAtlantic. He appears regularly on Fox News\, CNN\, NPR\, BBC\, and\nCNN-Turk. His la test book\, \;Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the\nMi ddle East\, was\npublished in September 2019 by I.B. Tauris. \;\n \n \n

Dr. Aaron Stein is the Director of the Middle East Program and a 2019 Templeton Fellow\nat the Foreign Polic y Research Institute. Previously\, Dr. Stein was a resident\nsenior fellow of the Atlantic Council\, where he managed their Turkey-related\nresearch program\, oversaw work on nonproliferation in the Middle East with a\nfoc us on Iran\, and researched non-state actors in the Middle East\, with a\n particular focus on Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq. He is the author of Turkey's New Foreign Policy:\nDavutoglu\, the AKP\, and the Pursuit of Regional OrderWhitehall Papers\, 2015).

Sponsored by Moynihan I nstitute of Global Affairs\, and Middle Eastern Studies Program

Co ntact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information: hkarakas@syr.edu

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