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Past Lectures

The 2019 John Martin Lecture, 22 November 2019

DIANA DARKE

Middle East expert and author

TURKEY AND SYRIA: DEEP PAST CONNECTIONS, DEEP PRESENT DIFFERENCES

The 2018 John Martin Lecture, 30 November 2018

RICHARD MOORE

British Ambassador to Turkey, January 2014 – December 2017

UK-TURKEY RELATIONS IN THE ERDOĞAN ERA

The 2017 John Martin Lecture, 24 November 2017

SELIN SAYEK BÖKE

Member of the Turkish Parliament

BUILDING TURKEY’S PROGRESSIVE FUTURE: DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND ECONOMIC REFORM

The 2016 John Martin Lecture, 23 November 2016

MARGARET MACMILLIAN

Professor of International History and Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford

WINDING UP THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: FROM PARIS TO LAUSANNE

The 2015 John Martin Lecture, 30 January 2015

DR EUGENE ROGAN

St Antony’s College, Oxford

GALLIPOLI FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE TRENCHES

Special lecture, 27 November 2015

PROFESSOR WILLIAM HALE

Emeritus Professor of Turkish Politics at SOAS, University of London

TURKEY: TWO ELECTIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH

The 2014 John Martin Lecture, 24 January 2014

PROFESSOR TALAT SAIT HALMAN

Bilkent University, Ankara

SHAKESPEAREAN ART IN THE TURKISH HEART: THE BARD IN OTTOMAN TIMES AND IN THE TURKISH REPUBLIC

The 2013 John Martin lecture, 22 February 2013

DR ALON LIEL

Tel Aviv University

TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS: IS THE STORY ENDING

The 2012 John Martin Lecture, 20 January 2012

DR CHRISTINE WOODHEAD

University of Durham

The Art of Letter Writing among the Ottomans

2011 Annual Lecture, Friday, 28 January 2011

Benjamin Fortna

From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic: Learning to Read

2010 Annual Lecture, Friday, 22 January 2010,

Richard Sakwa

The Outsiders:Turkey and Russia in Greater Europe

2009 Annual Lecture, Friday, 30 January 2009,

James Ker-Lindsay

The 10th Anniversary of Turkish-Greek Rapprochement: A Cause for Celebration?

2008 Annual Lecture, Friday, 25 January 2008

Maureen Freely

THE EAST-WEST DIVIDE IN TURKEY: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON LITERATURE, POLITICS AND EDUCATION

2007 Annual Lecture, Friday, 19 January 2007

DR CAROLINE FINKEL

Ottoman Historian and author of Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923

OTTOMAN HISTORY: WHOSE HISTORY IS IT?

2006 Annual Lecture, Friday, 20 January 2006

PROFESSOR WILLIAM HALE

Professor of Turkish Politics in the University of London

Visiting Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara

TURKEY, UNITED STATES AND IRAQ

2005 Annual Lecture, Friday, 21 January 2005

MICHAEL LAKE

EU Ambassador to Turkey 1991-1998

WHERE DOES TURKEY GO FROM HERE?

2004 Annual Lecture, 23 January 2004

CHRISTOPHER BREWIN

CREATING PEACE IN A ROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD

2003 Annual Lecture, Friday, 17 January 2003

PROFESSOR CHRIS HANN

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Germany

ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY AND ETHNICITY ON THE EAST BLACK SEA COAST

2002 Annual Lecture, Friday,18 January 2002

S. GÖKSU AND E. TIMMS

NAZIM HIKMET(1902-63) – TURKEY’S ROMANTIC COMMUNIST POET

2001 Annual Lecture

PROFESSOR JUSTIN McCARTHY

University of Louisville

BRITISH PROPAGANDA AND TURKS IN FIRST WORLD WAR.

2000 Annual Lecture, Friday, 21 January 2000

DR ANDREW MANGO

ATATURK AND THE FUTURE OF TURKEY

1999 Annual Lecture, 18 January 1999

PROFESSOR SİNA AKŞİN

University of Ankara

REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION: 75 YEARS OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC

1998 Annual Lecture, Friday, 16 January 1998

PROFESSOR ERIK ZÜRCHER

THE RISE AND FALL OF ”MODERN” TURKEY

1997 Annual Lecture, Friday 17 January 1997

PROFESSOR C.H. DODD

THE CYPRUS ISSUE-IS THERE A SOLUTION?

1996 Annual Lecture, Friday 19 April 1996

MEHMET ALİ BİRAND

One of Turkey’s most distinguished journalists

POST-ELECTION TURKEY

1995 Annual Lecture, Friday, 7 April 1995

RAHMİ M. KOÇ

Chairman: Koç Holding Group of Companies

TURKISH INDUSTRY; PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUREY

The First 1994 Annual Lecture, Monday, 18 April 1994

PROFESSOR ERDAL İNÖNÜ

Former Chairman of the Social Democrat Populist Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey

DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY SINCE 1983