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РусскийTurkish intellectuals who have recognized the Armenian Genocide: Soli Ozel
Massis Post Diaspora news outlet released a feature about professor of international relations, news editor and columnist Soli Ozel as part of a series on Turkish intellectuals who have recognized the Armenian Genocide.
The article reads:
Soli Ozel (born in 1958 in Izmir- Turkey), is a professor of international relations at Bilgi, University, Istanbul, and foreign news editor and a columnist for the Gazete Haberturk. He graduated from Robert College in Istanbul in 1975, and received his bachelor’s degree at Bennington College in 1980 and his master’s degree at John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studie in 1983. Later, he attended University of California at Berkeley for doctoral studies in political science. From 1998 until 2007, he was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy-Turkey, and is currently the editor-in-chief of Private View, the quarterly publication of TUSIAD, Turkey’s top business association. He has written for Nokta, GazetePazar, Sabah and Goru magazine. Professor Ozel has guest lectured at Georgetown, Harvard, Tufts and other US universities. He has also taught at UC Santa Cruz, SAIS, the University of Washington and the Hebrew University. Ozel has spent time as a fellow of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford and was a visiting senior scholar at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He has been a Fisher Family Fellow of the ��?Future of Diplomacy Program’ at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His writings have also been published in different publications in Turkey and abroad. Ozel is the co-author of ��?Rebuilding a partnership: Turkish-American relations in a new era’.
According to PanArmenian.net, April 1, 2010, “Some representatives of Turkish intelligentsia urge Turkey, which seeks EU membership, to follow the Serbian parliament’s example, which condemned the 1995 killings of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, and apologize to Armenians for the 1915 Genocide. The offer was advanced by Maya Arakon, assistant professor of International Relations from Yeditepe University, and Soli Ozel, professor of International Relations and Political Science at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. “
According to Today’s Zaman, September 26, 2014, “A group of academics, journalists, artists and intellectuals have released a statement condemning in the harshest terms what they define as expressions that include ��?open hatred and hostility’ towards Armenians in Turkish textbooks. A letter accompanying the text of the condemnation, written by historian Taner Akcam notes that including such expressions to teach children is a disgrace. The statement said ��?History textbooks should be collected immediately, with an apology issued to everyone and particularly to Armenian students.” The signees said textbooks in schools should seek to encourage feelings of peace, solidarity and living together over inciting hatred towards different religious and cultural groups. Professor Soli Ozel was one of the many most respected Turkish politicians who signed it.
Professor Soli Ozel’s two latest published works are ��?A Moment of Elation: The Gezi Protests/Resistance and the Fading of the AKP Project’ and an article co-authored with Serhat Guvenc entitled ��?NATO and Turkey in the Post-Cold War World: Between Abandonment and Entrapment’.
By Hambersom Aghbashian
