Contact:
Mr. Halil Magnus Karaveli
Turkey Initiative
CACI & SRSP
Institute for Security & Development Policy
SE/13130 Stockholm-Nacka, Sweden

Click to email

Expertise:
- Turkey – History and politics
- The Cyprus issue
- Islam and Secularism

Halil Magnus Karaveli
Nonresident Senior Fellow


H. Magnus Karaveli is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Turkey Initiative at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center.

From 1991 to 2007, Mr. Karaveli served as editorial writer at the Swedish daily Östgöta Correspondenten. His publications include Turkiet – en nygammal stormakt? (Turkey – a reborn great power?), Swedish Institute of International affairs (1993) and Landet mellan öst och väst – en historisk-politisköversikt (The country between East and West – a historical and political overview), in Turkiet – Bro eller barriär mellan Europa och Asien (Turkey – Bridge or Barrier between Europe and Asia) (1997).

Mr. Karaveli regularly appears in Swedish media on Turkish affairs. He has lectured on Turkish Affairs at the invitation of the Uppsala University, The Swedish Migration board, the Swedish Conservative party (Moderaterna) and the board of Swedish Trade Union of Municipal employees. He was a panelist at a seminar organized by the Silk Road studies program in the Swedish parliament in May 2007.

Mr. Karaveli has published widely in Swedish press, including essays in the leading Swedish dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet about Turkey’s Kurdish question, Kemal Atatürk’s legacy, Europe’s Islamist challenge and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Mr. Karaveli has in particular stressed the importance of secularism as a lever for democratization, most recently in the policy journal Europe’s world. His op-eds have also been published in the Turkish press.

Mr. Karaveli holds a B.Sc. in Political science from the University of Gothenburg, and has been awarded the Swedish-Turkish Friendship Award.

Publications:

A new form of Kemalism would make a better friend still, Europe’s world, Autumn 2007.

Europeans should support Turkish secularism, Turkish Daily News, May 31, 2007.

Vilse i Istanbul (Lost in Istanbul), essay about Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Dagens Nyheter, October 27, 2006.