Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay has written extensively on U.S. Turkey relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism. His work has been published in scholarly journals and major international print media, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He has been a regular columnist for CNNGPS and Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey s oldest and most influential English-language paper, and he appears regularly on Ameri...