Back	The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars The Police as a Neglected Dimension of State-Building Processes: The Ottoman Case Assist. Prof. Ferdan Ergut joins us at the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars this January with a lecture titled, "The Police as a Neglected Dimension of State-Building Processes: the Ottoman Case". Ergut will discuss the police as an instrument of control and domination within the Ottoman state and address, in particular, the new forms of state-society relations that emerged from the practices and prerogatives developed by the police around the concept of "public order". Organized in association with Boğaziçi University, the seminar will be held at the Ottoman Bank Museum on Saturday, January 15, from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. Ferdan Ergut, was born in Istanbul, in 1967. After graduating from the Department of Economics at Middle East Technical University in 1989, he enrolled in the master's program in history at Boğaziçi University. In 1994, he obtained his master's degree from the New School for Social Research in NY, USA, and in 2000, earned his Ph.D. in political science and historical studies with a doctoral dissertation titled, "State and Social Control: The Police in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey, 1839-1939". Currently a faculty member of the Department of History at Middle East Technical University, Ergut's areas of interest include, state formation in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, democratization, European revolutions and collective action, and the philosophy of social sciences.