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Soner Cagaptay
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Soner Cagaptay (Soner Çağaptay; born in 1970) is a Turkish-American political scientist based in the United States. He is director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is a historian by training and is an expert on Turkey–United States relations, Turkish politics, and Turkish nationalism.
Cagaptay received his Ph.D. degree in history from Yale University in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism.
Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).
Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. From 2006-2007, he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies.
He was a visiting professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has spoken at Cornell University.
He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.
Cagaptay has received the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships.
In 2012 he was named an American Turkish Society Young Society Leader. He is the author of four books on modern Turkey.
Cagaptay has written extensively on Turkey–United States relations; Turkish domestic politics; Turkish nationalism; Turkey's rise as an economic power and Ankara's Middle East policy, publishing in scholarly journals and international print media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Times, International Herald Tribune, Jane's Defence Weekly, and Habertürk. He is a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN's Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly in interviews and documentaries speaking with Voice of America, CNN, NPR, BBC, al-Jazeera, CNBC, PBS, and Fox News.
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