Cengiz Aktar

Cengiz Aktar is an associate professor of political science and a senior fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center (Sabancı University). He researches policies of memory regarding ethnic and religious minorities, and was involved in launching the online Apology Campaign addressed to Armenians. Aktar is a member of and advisor to the French periodical La Revue du Mauss, the Turkish ecological cso Buğday, the Hrant Dink Foundation and the Aladin Project. He is also a reviewer for the European Commission, DG Research. Aktar has published nine books and numerous articles in Turkey and abroad. The latest book he edited and contributed to, Ecumenical Patriarchate, was published in Turkish in 2011.