Back	Saturday Seminars at the Ottoman Bank Museum: Prof. Taner Timur "The Making of Modern Turkey" Our guest speaker this month at the "Making of Modern Turkey" seminars, organized by the Ottoman Bank Museum, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic, will be Prof. Taner Timur. The seminar is scheduled for Saturday, February 21, 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, progress in culture and the arts, 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 scholarly papers in the first session, the active participation of listeners is encouraged in the second session. It is planned to later publish the papers, presented at the seminars, in the form of a book. Taner Timur graduated from the School of Political Science at Ankara University in 1958 and started working at that university as a teaching assistant the same year. After becoming associate professor in 1968 and full professor in 1979, he retired from the same university in 2002. Prof. Timur has numerous published books and articles.