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At the Ottoman Bank Museum
The Course of Turkey-EU Relations

This month at the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures, Prof. Eser Karakaş, Assistant Dean at Bahçeşehir University will be joining us with a presentation entitled, "What Point Have We Reached in Turkey-EU Relations?" The lecture is free of charge and will be held at the Museum on Wednesday, November 9, from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Based on the milestones paving the road to the EU - at whose door Turkey has been knocking since 1959 - Eser Karakaş will provide an analysis of what has been accomplished since official candidate status was obtained in 1999, and evaluate the accession negotiations that lie ahead.

Eser Karakaş was born in 1953. After graduating from the Lycée Saint Joseph in Istanbul, he went on to study economics in the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at Boğaziçi University. He then obtained his MA and Ph.D. from Istanbul University and followed this up with research in macroeconomics and econometry at the University of Paris.

From 1990 to 1992, he was made assistant director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul University where he then served as assistant chair in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Economics, and as chair of the Institute of Social Sciences, until February 1999. After his positions as member of the Interuniversity Committee and dean of the School of Business Administration at Bahçeşehir University, Prof. Eser Karakaş is currently Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Bahçeşehir University.

In addition, he writes a column for the newspaper Referans and has published in the areas of Economic Theory, Finance Theory, Budget and European Union Finance.
Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures

"What Point Have We Reached in Turkey-EU Relations?"

Prof. Eser Karakaş
Assistant Dean
Bahçeşehir University

Wenesday, November 9, 2005 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Free admission

The Ottoman Bank Museum
35/37 Banks (Voyvoda) Street
(0212) 334 22 70