Cengiz Çandar

Cengiz Çandar; upon graduation from Ankara University, Cengiz Çandar taught at METU and later at Istanbul Bilgi, Cultere and Özyeğin Universities. As consultant to Turgut Özal, he helped set up links between Turkish and Iraqi Kurdish leadership. He did research at the Wilson Center and United States Institute of Peace. Author of 7 books, a contributor to 3 books, his articles appear in academic journals, in Turkish and foreign newspapers. Awarded the Abdi İpekçi Peace Award (1987), Örsan Öymen Award for News (1993) and Peace and Tolerance Award of Union of Journalists and Writers (1995). He is working on a book on Iraq, Kurds and Turkey’s Middle East strategy.