Ömer Taspinar Author

Philip H. Gordon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA, and former director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. His books include Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World (Times Books, 2007) and Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq (McGraw Hill, 2004). Omer Taspinar is a professor of national security studies at the National War College as well as the director of the Turkey Project and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, USA. He is the author of Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey (Routledge, 2005). Soli Ozel is a professor of international relations at Bigli University in Istanbul and a columnist for the Turkish daily Sabah.