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Halil Magnus Karaveli
Senior Fellow
Managing Editor, The Turkey Analyst


H. Magnus Karaveli is a Senior Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, and Managing Editor of the Turkey Analyst, in which he writes a biweekly column.

From 1991 to 2007, Mr. Karaveli served as editorial writer at the Swedish daily Östgöta Correspondenten. His publications include Prospects for a 'Torn' Turkey: A Secular and Unitary Future?, (with Svante Cornell, 2008); 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 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:

Halil M. Karaveli, "An Unfulfilled Promise of Enlightenment: Kemalism and Its Liberal Critics," Turkish Studies, vol. 11 no. 1, 2010.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Will the Reversal of the Regime of Military Tutelage Encourage a Reinvention of Turkey's Secular Camp?", Turkey Analyst, 1 March 2010.


M. K. Kaya and Halil M. Karaveli, "Turkey's Position between Iran and the West is Proving Increasingly Difficult to Sustain", Turkey Analyst, 17 February 2010.

Halil M. Karaveli, Though Military is Marginalized, Turkey's Liberalization Remains Elusive", Turkey Analyst, 1 February 2010.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Could Turkey's "Glasnost" Establish Equality as the Founding Principle of the State?", Turkey Analyst, 21 December 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli and M. K. Kaya, "Islamic Conservative and Nationalist Views on Jews and Israel: Another Convergence of Perceptions?", Turkey Analyst, 9 November 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Rhetoric and Reality: The AKP's Liberal Vision", Turkey Analyst, 12 October 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "A Growing Convergence of Perception: The Military and the AKP", 28 September 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Fusing Statism and Religious Conservatism: Is the AKP Introducing a More Formidable Version of Semi-Authoritarianism?", Turkey Analyst, 14 September 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Ankara's New 'Kurdish Opening': Narrow Room for Maneuver", Turkey Analyst, 17 August 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "Growing Intolerance threatens Turkey's National Cohesion", 3 July 2009.

Halil M. Karaveli, "General Staff Wages Two-Front Battle, Against Coup Plotters and Gülenists", Turkey Analyst, 19 June 2009.