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Hello and welcome to Armenian
News Network, Groong.
In this second part of our Conversation On
Groong on Turkey, Asbed Kotchikian continues to
explore Turkey’s transformation throughout the twentieth century and into the
twenty first, and the underlying dynamics powering these changes.
Prof. Kotchikian
is a senior lecturer of political science and international relations at Bentley University
in Massachusetts where he teaches courses on the Middle East and former Soviet
space.
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In this second part of our Conversation on Groong about Turkey, we
continue to explore its foreign policy towards the South Caucasus focusing on
relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia with:
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Professor Ara Sanjian
who is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Armenian Research
Center at University of Michigan, Dearborn. His research interests focus on the
post-World War I history of Armenia, Turkey and the Arab states of Western
Asia.
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Prof. Varuzhan Geghamyan is assistant professor at Yerevan State
University (Department of Oriental Studies) teaching courses on Turkey’s modern
history, History of Azerbaijan; Sociocultural anthropology of Azerbaijan;
Political ideologies and parties in Modern Turkey & History of the Turkish Republic.
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Prof. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan who is
associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science and International
Affairs Program at AUA. His research interests focus on Turkish politics, Kemalism, Political Islam & Security in the South
Caucasus
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Diana Yayloyan is an
Ankara-based Research Associate, working on Armenian-Turkish Normalisation Projects, supported by the EU. Diana is also
a Ph.D. Candidate at the Middle East Technical University, focusing on Gender
Theory and Peacebuilding.
Turkey has
been pursuing a more active foreign policy towards its neighbors in the
Caucasus and the Former Soviet space. What are the driving forces behind this
foreign policy?
That concludes this week’s Conversation On
Groong about Turkey.
We hope it has helped your
understanding of some of the issues involved. We look forward to your feedback,
including suggestions for future Conversation
topics. Contact us on our website, at groong.org,
or on our Facebook Page “ANN - Groong”,
or in our Facebook Group “Groong - Armenian News Network”.
Special thanks to Laura Osborn
for providing the music for our podcast. I’m Hovik Manucharyan, and on behalf of everyone in this episode, I
wish you a good week. Thank you for listening and talk to you next week.