faculty

Soner Cagaptay

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the BMW Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East-European Studies
Ph.D. Yale University, 2003

Dr. Soner Cagaptay is senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington-based think tank. His research interests are U.S.-Turkish relations, modern Turkish history, and the late Ottoman Empire. Cagaptay finished his dissertation on Turkish nationalism in the 1930s at Yale University's history department in 2003.

The recipient of numerous honors and grants, among them Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan Fellowships, Cagaptay has written on U.S.-Turkish relations, modern Turkish history, and the Balkans. Dr. Cagaptay has also taught courses on the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe in the History Department at Yale University (1999-2003).

Dr. Cagaptay frequently appears and comments in major media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, NPR, Reuters, and Voice of America, as well as in international media such as al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN-Turk, al-Hurrah, Guardian, Der Spiegel, and La Stampa.