BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 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:Mustafa \;Gökçek on Democracy in Turkey: An Endless StoryMu stafa \;Gökçek\, \;Associate Professor of History and the Director of MA program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Niagara UniversityTurkish e xperience of democracy has been a rocky journey at best. The legacy of the Ottoman multicultural coexistence never stopped confronting the claim of the Turkish Republic for a homogeneous nation state. Rapid social and poli tical transformations challenge the traditional institutions and give way to a complex meshing of the old and the new. This presentation will provid e a historical review of Turkey's engagement with democracy and offer an e xplanation for the roots of its contemporary challenges. Dr. Mustafa Gökçe kis an Associate Professor of History and the Director of MA program in In terdisciplinary Studies at Niagara University in Niagara Falls\, NY. He re ceived his B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Relations at Bilkent Uni versity\, Ankara\, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. in History at the Univer sity of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on Muslim intellectuals fr om Russia who migrated to Istanbul in early twentieth century and actively engaged in the intellectual discussions on Islam and Turkish nationalism. Dr. Gökçek currently teaches courses on the history of Russia\, Central A sia\, the Middle East\, and the Ottoman Empire.Sponsored by Moynihan Europ ean Research Centers at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and Turki sh Cultural Center - Syracuse DTEND:20140418T193000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T124411Z DTSTART:20140418T183000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:MERC presents: Mustafa Gökçek UID:RFCALITEM638472122513815909 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Mustafa \;Gökçek on Democracy in Turkey: An Endless Story
Mustafa \;Gökçek\,&nb sp\;Associate Professor of History and the Director of MA program in Inter disciplinary Studies at Niagara University
Turkish ex perience of democracy has been a rocky journey at best. The legacy of the Ottoman multicultural coexistence never stopped confronting the claim of t he Turkish Republic for a homogeneous nation state. Rapid social and polit ical transformations challenge the traditional institutions and give way t o a complex meshing of the old and the new. This presentation will provide a historical review of Turkey's engagement with democracy and offer an ex planation for the roots of its contemporary challenges.
Dr. Mustafa Gökçekis an Associate Professor of History and the Director of MA program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Niagara University in Niagara Falls\, NY. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Relations at Bilke nt University\, Ankara\, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on Muslim intellectu als from Russia who migrated to Istanbul in early twentieth century and ac tively engaged in the intellectual discussions on Islam and Turkish nation alism. Dr. Gökçek currently teaches courses on the history of Russia\, Cen tral Asia\, the Middle East\, and the Ottoman Empire.
Sponsored by M oynihan European Research Centers at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affa irs and Turkish Cultural Center - Syracuse
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