April 12, 2024
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Reşat Kasaba, professor and former director of the Jackson School, was recently awarded the 2024 High Achievement Award in Social Sciences from Kadir Has University in Istanbul. The theme of
May 24, 2018
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Doctoral Candidate Berkay Gülen analyzes the current crisis between Israel and Turkey following the move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and the killing of Palestinian demonstrators during
April 10, 2018
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Jackson School Director and Professor, Dr. Reşat Kasaba, an expert on Turkey, writes a piece about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s use of the concepts “native” and “national” to strengthen anti-western, nationalist
May 1, 2017
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Ph.D. candidate and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies research fellow Ozgur Ozkan blogs about his discovery that his hometown in Turkey has had historical ties to Seattle and its Sephardic Jewish community in
April 10, 2017
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On April 4 the Jackson School hosted nearly 35 students, faculty, and community members to hear foreign policy expert Dr. Amanda Sloat’s talk On the Eve of the Turkish Referendum: Implications for Domestic and
November 21, 2016
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Join us for a talk on “Turkey: A Troubled Country in a Troubled Region” featuring Dr. Henri J. Barkey, Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
August 24, 2016
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This summer dramatic political changes and a series of terrorist acts ripped across Europe and Turkey. On June 23, Britain voted to leave the European Union. This single decision upended
June 1, 2016
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The Chair of Sephardic Studies, Prof. Devin Naar, was recently featured in a Forward article about Turkish Jews. The piece “Jews Proudly Defend Last Sephardic Homeland – Even as Some
May 18, 2016
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Jackson School Director Reşat Kasaba, an expert on Turkey, spoke to students, faculty and members of the public a keynote lecture at Boston University for its 20th Anniversary Lecture of the