‘June 2015 General Elections and Turbulence in Politics of Turkey’
The Centre for Turkey Studies is pleased to invite you to a CEFTUS and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) joint roundtable with Prof Istar Gozaydin, a well-known professor of law and politics.
Please see her biography below.
Prof Gozaydin will analyse the recent political developments in Turkey. This will be an exclusive roundtable with a limited number of people. Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. Please email info@ceftus.org to reserve your seat. We will then send you a confirmation email. Entry to the venue will not be possible without confirmation email.
The event will take place between 10-11.30 am on 1 September 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
İştar Gözaydın is a professor of law and politics. Gözaydın received her MCJ (Master of Comparative Jurisprudence) at New York University, School of Law (1987); and Ph.D. at Istanbul University (1992). She is currently teaching at the Sociology Department of Gediz University, Izmir; and also she is a deputy member of the executive committee of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, a human rights organisation in Turkey. Professor Gözaydın was a research fellow at the University of London, Birkbeck College in 2009 and she was a Fulbright scholar in the U.S. in 1986-87. İştar Gözaydın’s publications include “Management of Religion in Turkey”: the Diyanet and Beyond” in Özgür Heval Çınar & Mine Yıldırım (ed.s): Freedom of Religion and Belief in Turkey, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2014, 10-35; “Ahmet Davutoğlu: Role as an Islamic Scholar Shaping Turkey’s Foreign Policy” in Nassef Manabilang Adiong (ed.): Islam and International Relations: Diverse Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013; “Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı,” in John L. Esposito (ed): Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, February 2009; “The Fethullah Gülen Movement and Politics in Turkey : a chance for Democratization or a Trojan Horse?:”, Democratization, vol. 16 no. 6 (December 2009), 1214-1236; “Religion, Politics and the Politics of Religion in Turkey”, in Dietrich Jung & Catharina Raudvere (ed.), Religion, Politics and Turkey’s EU Accession, Palgrave-Macmillan, september 2008, 159-176; “Diyanet and Politics”, The Muslim World, vol. 98, no. 2/3 (april/july 2008) 216-227; “Turkey: A Women’s History,” in Bonnie G. Smith (ed): The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, v.4, Oxford University Press, 2008, 255-258; “Adding Injury to Injury”, in Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence, ed. John Parry, Rodopi Press, 59-69, Amsterdam / New York, NY 2006.
