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).
Samim Akgönül: Minority: Cross-Perspectives on the Concept of Minority in the Turkish Context
IPC hosted a book launch on January 9, 2012 at its Karaköy headquarters for Azınlık: Türk Bağlamında Azınlık Kavramına Çapraz Bakışlar, written by Samim Akgönül of History and Political Science at Strasbourg University. Senior Scholar Ayşe Kadıoğlu moderated the roundtable while Cengiz Aktar from Bahçeşehir University and İlay Örs from Bilgi University commented on Akgönül’s latest work on minorities in the French, Greek and Turkish contexts. In his book, Akgönül penetrates deep into the conceptual meaning of minority and offers a fresh perspective on its perception in Turkey. Azınlık is a successful comparative analysis, studying non-Muslims in Turkey, as well as Muslim Turks in Greece and France, through the lens of religion.
Ayhan Aktar: Yorgo Hacıdimitriadis's Aşkale – Erzurum Diary
On October 18, 2011, Bilgi University faculty member Ayhan Aktar presented Yorgo Hacıdimitriadis's book Aşkale – Erzurum Günlüğü (Aşkale – Erzurum Diary) at the Istanbul Policy Center. Moderated by Senior Expert Ayşe Kadıoğlu, the meeting featured a conversation with the author about deportations, victims, and perpetrators in Turkey's relatively recent history.
7th Annual Sakıp Sabancı Conference
The seventh edition of the traditional Sakıp Sabancı Conference, organized in collaboration with IPM and the Brookings Institution, was held in April 2011. The keynote speaker at the conference was Javier Solana, former High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, who drew attention to recent developments concerning Turkey, Europe, and the world in 2011. Solana stated that relations between Europe and Turkey should be deepened and should not be limited to talks at the negotiating table. Kemal Derviş, Member of the IPM Executive Board and Director of the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program, commented on Solana's speech, highlighting the following points: "The EU Accession Project is Not Just an End in Itself, But a Big Step Toward a Better Global Order for Tomorrow (It’s Important to Remember That the EU Accession Project is Not Just an End in Itself, But a Big Step to a Better Global Order for Tomorrow).” Senior Expert and Sabancı University faculty member Ayşe Kadıoğlu moderated the discussion among listeners who joined the Washington speech via video conference from Sabancı University.
