Session 8
Friday (May 6):
10.30 AM-12.00 PM ET
CHAIR
Oya Dursun-Ozkanca
(Elizabethtown College, US)
PAPERS
Bedirhan Kir
(Boğaziçi U, Turkey)
Intersection of Religion and Nationalism:
The Position of Presidency of Religious Affairs
Osman Bahadir Dincer
(Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies, Germany)
Turkey’s Geopolitical Role in Shaping Political Vectors and
Patterns of Power Configuration in Iraqi Kurdistan
Philip Gamaghelyan
(U of San Diego, US)
Prospects for Armenia-Turkey Peacebuilding
in Non-Democratic Context
*co-authored with Pinar Sayan (Beykoz U, Turkey)
DISCUSSANT
Colleen Wood
(Columbia U, US)