Halil M. Karaveli

Senior Research Fellow

Halil M. Karaveli is a Senior Fellow with the Turkey Initiative at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center.

From 1991 to 2007, Mr. Karaveli served as editorial writer at the Swedish daily Östgöta Correspondenten. His publications include Turkiet - en nygammal stormakt? (Turkey - a reborn great power?), Swedish Institute of International affairs (1993) and Landet mellan öst och väst - en historisk-politisk översikt (The country between East and West - a historical and political overview), in Turkiet - Bro eller barriär mellan Europa och Asien (Turkey - Bridge or Barrier between Europe and Asia) (1997), Prospects for a "Torn" Turkey: A Secular and Unitary Future?, (2008), co-authored with Svante E. Cornell, and Reconciling Statism with Freedom - Turkey's Kurdish Opening (2010).

Mr. Karaveli has lectured on Turkish Affairs at the invitation of the Uppsala University, The Swedish Migration board, the Swedish Conservative party (Moderaterna) and the board of Swedish Trade Union of Municipal employees.

Mr. Karaveli has published widely in Swedish press, including essays in the leading Swedish dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet about Turkey's Kurdish question, Kemal Atatürk's legacy, Europe's Islamist challenge and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. His recent research has been focused on the impasse of Kemalism and on the reconciliation of the Turkish state tradition with societal freedom.

Mr. Karaveli holds a B.Sc. in Political science from the University of Gothenburg.