About the Authors Soner Cagaptay Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Senior Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. Christina Bache Fidan Christina Bache Fidan is a research fellow at the Center for International and European Studies of Kadir Has University in Istanbul and a PhD candidate in the department of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. Ege Cansu Sacikara Ege Cansu Sacikara is the Yvonne Silverman Research Assistant at The Washington Institute. Larisa Baste Larisa Baste is the managing editor of multimedia at The Washington Institute. Open image View/Print Page as PDF Share Email Alerts Sign Up To top