Turkey and her troubled foreign policy,
Part I: Palestine and Israel
Another tragic episode in the endless clashes between Palestine Arabs and Jews ended with a temporary truce, after 11 days of clashes, which left over 300 people dead. The fight over the Holy Land is one of the leading disputes in the Middle East which spills over to the rest of the world as anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Additionally, the Palestinian cause is very dear to the heart of Turkey’s abrasive President Erdogan. He certainly made new enemies with his provocative comments during the clashes. Real Turkey Channel hosts foreign relations expert and distinguished scholar Dr. Soli Ozel in this two part series to understand the dynamics of and the end-game in this timeless conflict.
Dr. Soli Ozel: Soli Ozel is a professor of international relations and political science at Istanbul Kadir Has University.
Soli taught at U.C. Santa Cruz, SAIS, University of Washington, Hebrew University, and Bogazici University in Istanbul. He was a fellow at St. Antony’s College at Oxford in the spring of 2002, and he was a senior visiting fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in the fall of the same year.
Soli’s articles and opinion pieces appear in a wide variety of leading newspapers in Turkey and elsewhere around the world. Currently, he is a columnist for Haberturk newspaper, a frequent contributor to The Washington Post’s “Post Global”, and the former editor of the Turkish edition of Foreign Policy.
Most recently, he co-authored the report Rebuilding a Partnership: Turkish-American Relations For a New Era? with Dr. Suhnaz Yilmaz and Abdullah Akyuz.
He received his B.A. at Bennington College, M.A. from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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