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Ozgur Ozkan
Harvard University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Turkish Studies
Security Studies
Ottoman Studies
Nationalism
Comparative
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Kurdistan
Iraq
Specialties
Civil-Military Relations, Political Violence, Ethnic Representation, Military, Minorities
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
Greek (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2022 | Jackson School of International Studies | University of Washington
MA | 2012 | National Security Affairs | The US Naval Postgraduate School
BA | 2004 | Systems Engineering | Turkish Military Academy
Abstracts
Cultivating Imperial Patriotism: Minorities and Response to Universal Military Conscription in the Second Constitutional Period Social and Cultural Sources of the Turkish Military's Interventions and Their Evolution in the Post-Cold War Era The Turkish Military’s Social Alienation Through Purges and Promotions: The Composition of Officer Corps and Its Implications for the Military-Society Relations in Turkey Ethnic Representation in the Turkish Army and its Implications on Kurdish Ethno- Mobilization When the Revolution Devours Its Own Children: Coups, Self-Purging, and Military Effectiveness in Turkey (1960-2007) Soldiers and Modern Autocrats: The Army's Role between Democracy and Dictatorship