The CACI & SRSP Joint Center cordially invites you to

"Renegotiating Turkey? The June 12 general election and the prospects of democratization and constitutional reform"

SILK ROAD SEMINAR
Monday, May 30, 2011, 13.00-16.00
ISDP, Västra Finnbodavägen 2, Stockholm-Nacka (Map)

Program

1300               Introduction
                      Svante E. Cornell, Director, ISDP

1310-1420      Prospects for the June 12 General Elections
                     Kadri Gürsel, Columnist, Milliyet
                     Andrew Finkel, Istanbul-based writer

1420-1440      Break

1440-1600      Prospects for Constitutional Developments and Democratic Reforms
                      Ihsan Dağı, Middle East Technical University
                      Hasan B. Kahraman, Kadir Has University
                      Halil M. Karaveli, ISDP

Speakers

Hasan Bülent Kahraman is Vice Rector of Kadir Has University in Istanbul and the author, among many other works, of a multi-volume account of the dynamics of Turkish politics since the Ottoman reform era in the 19th century.

Kadri Gürsel is a columnist at the daily Milliyet. He has written extensively about Turkish foreign policy and about authoritarian inclinations in current Turkish politics.

Andrew Finkel is a journalist based in Istanbul for more than 20 years and author of the forthcoming Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know

Halil M. Karaveli, Senior Fellow at ISDP and managing editor of the Turkey Analyst. He recently authored Reconciling Statism with Freedom: Turkey's Kurdish Opening.

To RSVP, please email ISDP at emartensson@silkroadstudies.org.

The Institute for Security and Development Policy is a Stockholm-based independent and non-profit research and policy institute. The Institute is dedicated to expanding understanding of international affairs, particularly the interrelationship between the issue areas of conflict, security and development. The Institute’s primary areas of geographic focus are Asia and Europe’s neighborhood. ISDP’s Silk Road Studies Program constitutes the European leg of a joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (www.silkroadstudies.org). It is the first Center of its kind in Europe and North America, and is today firmly established as a leading center for research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders and journalists. The Joint Center publishes the CACI Analyst (www.cacianalyst.org), the Turkey Analyst (www.turkeyanalyst.org), the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly (www.isdp.eu/cefq) and the Silk Road Paper series (http://www.isdp.eu/silkroadpapers).