‘Snap Elections in Turkey: Now and Then’
The Centre for Turkey Studies is pleased to invite you to a CEFTUS and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) joint roundtable with veteran journalist and author Mr Cengiz Candar.
Please see his biography below.
Days before the General Elections in Turkey, Mr Candar will share his analysis on the tumultuous developments of recent months, from violent clashes between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey’s policy over Syria to prospects of a change to a presidential system and making of a first civilian constitution.
This will be an exclusive roundtable with a small number of people. Please email info@ceftus.org to reserve your seat.
The event will take place between 10-11.30 am on 28 October 2015, in Writing Room, at RUSI.
RUSI London Headquarters:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Whitehall London SW1A 2ET UK
We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Speaker Biography
Cengiz Candar studied political science and international relations at Ankara University. He began his career as journalist in 1976 in Turkish daily Vatan after living some years in the Middle East and Europe due to his opposition to the regime in Turkey following the military intervention in 1971. An expert for the Middle East (Lebanon and Palestine) and the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Candar worked for the Turkish News Agency and for Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Referans and Güneş as a war correspondent. Currently, he is a columnist for Radikal. Candar served as special adviser to Turkish president Turgut Özal between 1991 and 1993. His interest was drawn to the events during the ethnic unrest in the Balkans between 1993 and 1995. From 1997, Candar lectured for two years on “History and Politics in the Middle East” at Bilgi University in İstanbul. Between 1999 and 2000, he did research work on “Turkey of the 21st century” as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. His description of the 1998 events in Turkey as a “post-modern coup” gained notice internationally, though Radikal columnist Türker Alkan had used the term two weeks earlier.