Turkey: Between the Muslim East and the Christian West
Speaker:
Bulent Aliriza
19 Feb 2006
7:00 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Bulent Aliriza is Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he established the Turkey Project which examines Turkey's foreign and domestic policy issues. He is also Co-Director of the CSIS Caspian Sea Energy Project looking at the transportation of oil and gas from the Caspian region to world markets. Previously, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and also served as a Turkish Cypriot diplomat in New York and Washington, D.C. He holds a degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.