The Rumi Forum presented “Turkish-Armenian Relations: What Next?“ with Dr. Omer Taspinar, Director of the Turkey Program, Brookings Institution.
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Dr. Ömer Taşpınar is Director of the Turkey Program at the Brookings Institution and Professor of National Security Strategy at U.S. the National War College. Prior to joining Brookings in 2003 he was an Assistant Professor in the European Studies Department of the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Taşpınar is the author of three books: Political Islam and Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey (Routledge, 2005), Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership (with Philip Gordon) (Brookings Institution Press, 2008) and Fighting Radicalism with Human Development: The Political Economy of Education, Employment, and Freedom in the Islamic World. His research focuses on Turkey-EU and Turkish-American relations; European Politics; Transatlantic relations; Muslims in Europe; Islamic Radicalism; Human Development in the Islamic world; and American Foreign Policy in the Middle East. In addition to his academic and policy work, Dr. Taspinar is also a columnist for Today’s Zaman and Sabah newspapers and writes monthly for Forbes Magazine’s Turkish edition. Dr. Taşpınar has a Ph.D. and M.A. in European Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and a B.A. in Political Science from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Taspinar speaks English, French, Italian and Turkish (native) and basic Arabic.
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Dr. Gönül Tol received her B.A. degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2001, her M.A. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2002. Her masters thesis which is entitled Beyond Systemic Approaches: The Study of Irredentism is on the role of ethnic identity on foreign policy making with a special emphasis on former Yugoslavia. She received her Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2008. Her dissertation, The Rise of Islamism among Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, is a comparative study of the Milli Görüs Movement in Germany and the Netherlands. She conducted extensive field research in these countries between 2004 and 2007. She was awarded a graduate fellowship at the Middle East Studies Center at Florida International University where she also served as the Director of the Model United Nations. She worked for TUSIAD US as the Program Manager. She is the Director of Center for Turkish Studies at the Middle East Institute. Her focus of research is Islamist movements in Western Europe and the Middle East and their radicalization processes, immigration, ethnic and religious identity formation and institutionalization of political Islam. She has served as panelist, chair and moderator in several international conferences. She has given lectures on Turkish politics, Muslims in Europe and political Islam at American University, Johns Hopkins University, Florida International University, University of Kent and TOBB ETÜ. She has publications on Turkish immigrant community in Western Europe, EU immigration policies and Islam in Western Europe and political islam.