Redefining Turkey’s Political Center

Issue Date October 1999
Volume 10
Issue 4
Page Numbers 129-41
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About the Author

Cengiz Çandar, a political columnist for the Turkish daily Sabah, is a lecturer on Middle Eastern history and politics at Bilgi University in Istanbul. From 1991 to 1993, he served as a special advisor to President Turgut Özal of Turkey. A founding member of the New Democracy Movement in Turkey, he helped launch the Movement for Democracy in the Balkans. He was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., from April to September 1999 and is currently a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

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