Turkey, India, and to some extent, the United States offer excellent material for analyzing democracy, secularism and constitution-making.  Conference panels will use TESEV DP research to evaluate current debates in Turkey on constitutionalism, constitution-making, transitional justice and reparations, and religion-state relations and to reflect on how these issues have been engaged in the United States and India and what each case can offer to scholarship and policymaking.

Panel One: Constitutionalism and Constitution-Making and Judicial Reform in Turkey, India, and the United States.

Moderator: Karen Barkey (Columbia University) --

Speakers: Levent Köker (Law Department, At?l?m University) -

Güne? Murat Tezcür (Political Science Department, Loyola University Chicago)

Kendall Thomas (Law Faculty, Columbia University)

Uday Mehta (Graduate Center CUNY) -

Discussion -

Panel Two Facing the Past: Transition, Truth-Seeking, and Justice in Turkey and the United States

Moderator: Güne? Murat Tezcür

Speakers: Dilek Kurban (TESEV DP) -

Nazan üstündag (Bogazici University) -

Elazar Barkan (Columbia University) -

John Torpey (Graduate Center at CUNY)

Panel Three - Religion-State and Society Relations: Turkey and India

Moderator: Etyen Mahçupyan (TESEV Democratization Program) -

Speakers: Nilüfer GOLE (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) -

Resat Kasaba (University of Washington) -

Sudipta Kaviraj (Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University) -

Discussion 

This conference is part of an ongoing initiative between TESEV DP and CDTR to share research and expand scholarly collaboration. Co-sponsored by The Middle East Institute.