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DESCRIPTION:Mustafa&nbsp\;Gökçek on Democracy in Turkey: An Endless StoryMu
 stafa&nbsp\;Gökçek\,&nbsp\;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
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SUMMARY:MERC presents: Mustafa Gökçek
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p><b>Mustafa&nbsp\;Gökçek on Democracy
  in Turkey: An Endless Story</b></p><p><b>Mustafa&nbsp\;Gökçek</b>\,<i>&nb
 sp\;Associate Professor of History and the Director of MA program in Inter
 disciplinary Studies at Niagara University</i></p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p>Sponsored by M
 oynihan European Research Centers at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affa
 irs and Turkish Cultural Center - Syracuse</p><p></p>
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