Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Senior ScholarAyşe Kadıoğlu is Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center. She is Deputy Member of the Board of Directors of the Hrant Dink Foundation in Istanbul and a member of the Advisory Board of the Bucerius PhD Scholarships Program in Migration Studies of Zeit Stiftung in Hamburg. She has been a regular participant of Yale Law School’s ongoing Middle East Legal Studies Seminar for eight years (since 2004). Kadıoğlu was one of the nine members of the Council of Europe’s Group of Eminent Persons in 2010-2011. She was a Visiting Scholar and Senior Associate Member at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College in 2005 and 2009-2010. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for European Studies in 1992.
Ayşe Kadıoğlu is the author of various articles in Middle East Journal, Middle Eastern Politics, International Migration, Muslim World, Citizenship Studies, Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Law and Governance, Philosophy and Social Criticism. She is also the author and/or editor of the following books: Cumhuriyet İradesi-Demokrasi Muhakemesi: Türkiye’de Demokratik Açılım Arayışları (Republican Will-Democratic Reason: Search for a Democratic Disclosure in Turkey), Istanbul: Metis, 1999; Zaman Lekesi (Time Stain), Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006; (author and editor) Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara (Transformation of Citizenship: From Membership to Rights), Istanbul: Metis, 2008; (co-editor with Fuat Keyman) Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011); (co-editor with Kerem Öktem and Mehmet Karlı) Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2012).
Kadıoğlu received her PhD in Political Science at Boston University (1990), MA in International Relations at the University of Chicago (1984), and a BS in Political Science at Middle East Technical University (1982).
"Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks "
IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative convened a book discussion titled "Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks" with Jenny White on June 25, 2013. IPC Senior Scholar Ayşe Kadıoğlu made the opening remarks.
Turkey's Migration Policy from 2002 to 2012: An Assessment of the AKP's Reforms
IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative convened a workshop titled "Turkey’s Migration Policy from 2002 to 2012: An Assessment of the AKP’s Reforms" on February 16, 2013 at IPC. Senior Scholar Ayşe Kadıoğlu gave the opening remarks in the workshop organized in the framework of 2012/13Mercator-IPC Fellow Seçil Paçacı Elitok’s project.
Welcoming Event for the 2012/13 Mercator – IPC Fellows
On September 25, 2012 the welcoming event for the first Mercator-IPC Fellows took place in Istanbul. The event opened with the warm welcoming remarks of Nihat Berker, President of Sabanci University, Bernhard Lorentz, President of Stifung Mercator, and Fuat Keyman, IPC Director. Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow Cem Özdemir, Co-Chairman of the German green party “Alliance 90/The Greens”, gave a keynote speech entitled “Europe at the Crossroads: Why Turkey Matters”. Subsequently, the 2012/13 Mercator – IPC Fellows were introduced through short video clips. The ensuing panel discussion, entitled “A Silver Lining: German – Turkish Cooperation in Turbulent Times,” offered an intellectually stimulating debate between Kemal Dervis, Member of the IPC Executive Board and Vice President of the Brookings Institution, Ömer Madra, Mercator – IPC Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of Acik Radyo, Secil Pacaci Elitok, Mercator – IPC Fellow, and Ambassador Klaus Scharioth (ret.), Dean of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs and Member of the IPC’s International Advisory Council. The discussion was chaired by Ayse Kadioglu, Senior Scholar at IPC and Professor at Sabanci University.
Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop: New Forms of Social Protest
IPC in collaboration with Hrant Dink Foundation hosted the “Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop: New Forms of Social Protest” at Cezayir Meeting Hall, on May 25-26, 2012. Senior Scholar Ayşe Kadıoğlu took the lead in co-organizing the event.
Free Speech in Turkey and the World with Timothy Garton Ash
IPC hosted a rare event that provided a closer look into the “Free Speech in Turkey and the World.” The renowned academic and public intellectual Timothy Garton Ash, who is also a professor at the University of Oxford and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, delivered the keynote speech. Ash elaborated on the impediments to the freedom of speech in Turkey and around the globe, and he shared his insight on removing those obstacles. IPC Senior Scholar Ayşe Kadıoğlu, who put together this timely event, chaired the expert panel, which featured Hasan Cemal (Milliyet), Yasemin İnceoğlu (Galatasaray University), and Halil Berktay (Sabancı University), and Kerem Öktem (Oxford University). The panel focused not only on the actual limits to free speech in Turkey, but also included a theoretical debate on the possible limits to free speech. The “Turkey Free Speech Debate” also introduced a new Oxford-based website on this issue. The website can be accessed at freespeechdebate.com.
Roundtable with the Honorable Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Senior Scholar Ayşe Kadıoğlu moderated the off-the-record roundtable at IPC Karaköy Headquarters on January 11, 2012. Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and 26 guests discussed the next period of Turkish-European relations, the role of the Council of Europe on current issues, and the Presidency of Mr. Çavuşoğlu as well as Turkish foreign policy. Mr. Çavuşoğlu answered questions on Turkey’s place within the Council and its policies regarding newer topics such as the crisis in Greece and the Arab Spring.
