MODERN TURKISH STUDIES, NORMAN PATERSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, CARLETON UNIVERSITY (In collaboration with the Council of Turkish )

2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE “- RELATIONS IN TROUBLED TIMES” 4-5 March 2016

4 March: Art Gallery, 1125 Colonel By Drive [tel: 613-520-2120]

5 March: Residence Commons, 1125 Colonel By Drive [tel: 613-520-6615]

Free admission by registration

RSVP by 29 February 2016 at https://2016-annual-conference.eventbrite.ca

PROGRAM

4 March 2016, Art Gallery 18:00 – 18:30 Registration 18:30 – 20:30 Welcome Reception

5 March 2016, Residence Commons, Auditorium Ground Floor 9:00 – 9:30 Registration 9:30 – 10:30 Chris Kilford, Former Military Attaché, Canadian Embassy, Ankara: “Canada-Turkish relations in a dangerous world: Is ‘cruise-control’ good enough?” 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee 11:00 – 12:30 Panel I: Canada-Turkey Relations, Old and New Issues Lale Eskicioğlu, Ph.D. Student, Carleton University, “Turkish Lot - the Case of Lost Turks in Brantford, ” Christopher Gunn, Coastal Carolina University, “Secret Armies and Revolutionary Federations: Armenian Political Violence in in the 1980s” 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 16:00 Panel II: Crisis: Turkey, Canada and Beyond Giray Sadık, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, “Refugee Crisis and Growing Transnational Challenges in Turkey and EU” Karim H. Karim, Carleton University, “The Role of Religious Literacy in Averting Violent Extremism” Rouba Al-Fattal, University of Ottawa (p/t), “Syrian in Canada” 16:00 End

PRESENTERS

Chris Kilford

Chris Kilford (then Colonel Kilford) is the former Canadian Defence Attaché to Turkey. He retired from the in September 2014 after 36 years of military service. In 2009, he completed a Ph.D. in history at Queen’s University focused on civil- military relations in the post-colonial developing world. Today, Chris is a Fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. In addition, he teaches on-line Canadian foreign policy and international relations courses for the Canadian Forces College in .

Lale Eskicioğlu

Lale Eskicioğlu, an active member of the Turkish community of Canada, has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an M.A. in World Literatures and Cultures. In spite of a long background in the information technology, Lale’s passion lay in the Humanities. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Carleton University’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC). As a graduate student in Cultural Mediations in Literary Studies, her research interests include reception of satire in the Muslim world, diaspora studies and transnationalism. In addition to her TA duties, Lale is also a translator and a Turkish teacher.

Christopher Gunn

Christopher Gunn received his B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island and his Ph.D. in History from Florida State University. He has spent nearly six years living and researching in Budapest, Istanbul, Ankara and Antalya. His current research interests include the and its borderlands, particularly the and Caucasus, the Empire’s successor states, transnational political violence and efforts towards reconciliation. Dr. Gunn’s recent publications include: “Getting Away with Murder: Soghomon Tehlirian, ASALA and the Justice Commandos, 1921-1984.” In War & Collapse: and the Ottoman State, edited by Hakan Yavuz. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press (February 2016) and “The 1960 Coup in Turkey: A U.S. Intelligence Failure or a Successful Intervention?” Journal of Cold War Studies Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 2015): 103-139.

/ 1 Giray Sadık

Giray Sadık earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia (Georgia, USA) specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Public opinion and foreign policy interaction, Transatlantic relations (NATO, EU-CFSP) and Turkish foreign policy are among his research interests. In addition to Dr. Sadık’s various international publications, his book American Image in Turkey: U.S. Foreign Policy Dimensions was published by Lexington Books, USA, 2009. After his return from , where he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University; currently, he is a faculty member, vice chair and Erasmus coordinator in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey.

Karim H. Karim

Karim H. Karim is Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. He has previously served as director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, UK and the School of Journalism and Communication of Carleton University. His recent publications are: Re- Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western Muslim Intersections and Engaging the Other: Pubic Policy and Western-Muslim Intersections.

Rouba Al-Fattal

Rouba Al-Fattal is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, teaching Middle East and Arab Politics. She is a Founder & Policy Consultant of Impact Policy, which is a global policy consultancy providing analysis, advocacy and cross-cultural training to Canadians involved in the Arab world. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Ottawa, championing its Syrian Refugee Fund and leading her own #Canadian4refugees campaign. Al-Fattal has received a number of awards and prizes for her research and intercultural initiatives, and she authored numerous articles and books including Transatlantic Electoral Assistance in the Palestinian Territories and The EU Foreign Policy in the Palestinian Territories.