Turkey: Between the Muslim East and the Christian West

Bulent Aliriza is Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he established the Turkey Project which examines Turkey's foreign and domestic policy issues. He is also Co-Director of the CSIS Caspian Sea Energy Project looking at the transportation of oil and gas from the Caspian region to world markets. Previously, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and also served as a Turkish Cypriot diplomat in New York and Washington, D.C. He holds a degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford.