28 March 2019 – As part of the seminar series that CRS has jointly organized with Tarih Vakfı on the intersecting histories of the Soviet Union and the Turkish Republic in the interwar period, Sam Hirst will be delivering the second talk (in Turkish), “The Heart of Turkey – Ankara: The Anti-Imperialism of Soviet-Turkish Cultural Relations.” In…
11 March 2019 – Kurtuluş Özgen visited CRS to show an early cut of a documentary film that he and a team are working on. The film tells the story of the Kayseri Sümerbank Textile Factory, a large textile plant built in Central Anatolia with Soviet assistance in the 1930s. Graduate students from several universities in…
14 March 2019 – CRS director Onur İşçi delivered a lecture in İstanbul, “Beyond Realpolitik: Strategic and Economic Aspects of Soviet-Turkish Friendship.” The talk was the first in a series of lectures, co-organized by CRS and Tarih Vakfı, devoted to the intersecting histories of the Turkish Republic and the Soviet Union in the interwar period.…
19 December 2018 – Alexei Vladimirovich Erkhov, Russian ambassador in Turkey, visited Bilkent and delivered talk on the Russian perspective on the United Nations. Mr. Erkhov also spoke at length about Russian-Turkish bilateral relations. The full text of his talk can be found here. Mr. Erkhov’s visit to Bilkent took place on the two-year anniversary…
18 December 2018 – Director Yasin Ali Türkeri visited Bilkent to show and discuss his documentary film, “Başka Tren Gıdı Gıdı” (The Gıdı Gıdı). The film was released in 2018 and tells the story of the Nazilli Sümerbank Textile factory that was built with Soviet assistance in the 1930s. The documentary approaches the story through…
31 October 2018 – Etienne Peyrat (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris) visited Bilkent and spoke with graduate students from the IR department about his research. The conversation covered his work on the Soviet Union and Iran, and the role of the Soviet republics in international relations.