Professor Harris Beider of the Centre for Social Relations has been appointed to Columbia University, New York City as a Visiting Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
When it comes to the thorny issue of Islamisation in Turkey, most external commentators focus on whether Turkey is becoming more Islamic in its governance, and what this would mean for Western interests. Concerns over the growing Islamisation of Turkey form the backbone of gloom and doom stories of how the once-loyal ally could now become a “new Iran”.
Ex-UK Ambassador and Coventry University Professor Simon Massey thinks so.