"Europe and Turkey: Suspicious Minds"

The Voyvoda Street Economic History lectures host Assoc. Prof. Hakan Yılmaz this month with a presentation entitled, Europe and Turkey: Suspicious Minds, in which he identifies the points of intersection and divergence in the mutual suspicion between Europe and Turkey. The lecture will be held at the Museum, free of charge, on Wednesday, March 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Yılmaz compares the results obtained from two studies carried out in Turkey and Europe. The first draws on in-depth interviews and a national public survey conducted in Turkey between July 2003 and July 2004, to investigate Turkish skepticism towards Europe. The second, conducted in the second half of 2005, resorts once again to in-depth interviews to explore France and Germany's distrust of Turkey.  

Assoc. Prof. Hakan Yılmaz, who currently teaches in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. His research has focused on post-World War II politics in Turkey, democratization, European integration, and culture and identity issues in Turco-European relations. He is currently investigating the hesitations and suspicions of Turkish elites and masses towards Europe and the EU, conservatism in Turkey and the place of Islam in European identity.  His recently published works include, "Türkiye'de Avrupa Şüpheciliği" [Euroskepticism in Turkey] (Avrupa'ya Doğru Aktörler, Süreçler, Olasılıklar, ed. Fuat Keyman, Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2005) and "Le Conservatisme Turc et l'Idée d'Europe" [Turkish Conservatism and the Idea of Europe] (Entre Europe et Méditerranée, les Défis et les Peurs, ed. Thierry Fabre, Arles et Paris: Editions Actes Sud, 2005).

Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures Europe and Turkey: Suspicious Minds Assoc. Prof. Hakan Yılmaz Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Free admission The Ottoman Bank Museum Bankalar (Voyvoda) Caddesi 35/37 (0212) 334 22 70