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Turkey: From Democratic Transition to Elected Autocracy
Date:
Tuesday, 03 Apr 2018
Time:
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location:
303 International Center
Department:
Asian Studies Center
Event Details:

Guest lecturer: Steven A. Cook, is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for the Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy.

In the fall of 2004, the European Commission recommended that Turkey begin negotiations to join the most exclusive of clubs, the European Union. Almost a decade and a half later, Turkey looks less like a liberal European democracy than an elected autocracy. How did this happen? What are the prospects for a reversal of Turkey's authoritarian trajectory? What does Turkey's authoritarian turn mean for its relations with the United States and Europe?

Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and the Muslim Studies Program.