Back	The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars continue at the Ottoman Bank Museum The Making of Modern Turkey seminars, organized by the Ottoman Bank Museum on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Republic, continue with Prof. Çağlar Keyder, from the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University, speaking this month at the seminar scheduled for Saturday, November 15, 2003, from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. Organized in association with Boğaziçi University on the theme "Continuity and Disruption in the Turkish Republic" and held on the third Saturday of each month from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m., the "Making of Modern Turkey" seminars involve a general assessment of the past century, followed by a historical discussion of the transformations triggered by the Republic. All 9 seminars focus on issues concerning the state, relations between the individual and civil society, the concept of citizenship, financial and economic change, interventionist and liberal structures, legal order, basic rights and liberties, cultural and artistic progress and the understanding of modernity. The seminars, which aim to bring together scholars from universities and different arenas, are held in two sessions. Following the presentation of individual papers in the first session, the active participation of listeners, in the ensuing discussions, is encouraged, in the second session. It is planned to later publish the papers, presented at the seminars, in the form of a book.