The Turkish Pendulum Between East and West
Monday, November 13, 2023
The Colony Palm Beach Pavilion Room
155 Hammon Avenue
Palm Beach, FL 33480
6:00 p.m. – Registration & Social
6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Speaker Presentation
Dr. Mehmet Gurses will discuss Turkey and its International Relevance
Speaker Profile: Dr. Mehmet Gurses is Professor and Chair Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He earned his PhD in Political Science, University of North Texas, 2007
His research interests include ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, and Turkish politics.
He is the author of Anatomy of a Civil War: Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and co-editor of Conflict, Democratization and the Kurds in the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
He has published extensively in journals, including Social Science Quarterly, Defense and Peace Economics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Political Research Quarterly.
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