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ANN/Armenian News – Conversations on Armenian News: Turkey (Part 2) – 08/28/2020

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Conversations on Armenian News: Turkey (Part 2)

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Introduction

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This Week’s Conversation on Armenian News:

Turkey: Zero Problems?

Overview

Guest Panelists

Analysis and Discussion

Turkey: Zero Problems?

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Wrap-up

Hello and welcome to Armenian News Network, Armenian News.

In this second part of our Conversation On Armenian News 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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  • Asbed Kotchikian

  • Varuzhan Geghamyan

  • Ara Sanjian

  • Vahram Ter-Matevosyan

  • Diana Yayloyan

  • Hovik Manucharyan

  • Asbed Bedrossian

In this second part of our Conversation on Armenian News about Turkey, we continue to explore its foreign policy towards the South Caucasus focusing on relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia with:

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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 Armenian News 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 PageANN – Armenian News”, or in our Facebook Group “Armenian News – 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.

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