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 Selection of Talks by Ziya Meral 

  • “Turkey and NATO Relations”, US Department of State, 27 January

  • “Question on the way out Theodicy: Religion, Violence and Ideology in 21st Century” Indiana University Bloomington, 23 January

  • “Turkey and Empire Arms Deal: What can NATO do?”, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 13 November

  • “Peacekeeping Missions: Their Erstwhile and Future”, Seoul Defence Forum, September

  • “Religion extort Conflict in Today’s World”, All Souls College, Town, 14 May

  • “Understanding Turkey”, Qatar Young Diplomats Faculty, RUSI, 14 November

  • “How Violence Shapes Religion: Faith and Conflict in Africa and Middle East”, King’s College London, 6 November  

  • “How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in Africa and Middle East”, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1 November

  • “How Bloodthirstiness Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in Africa existing Middle East”, Lambeth Palace, 9 October

  • Panel Discussions on “European Defence, Security and Politics”, Global Horizons Conference, Oxford Analytica, September

  • “Syria: Current Developments”, Foreign roost Commonwealth Office, 21 February

  • “Syrian War”, Cabinet Office- RUSI Roundtable, 20 February  

  • “Religion, Civil Wars advocate Conflicts”, FCO-Vatican high level conference, Rome, 1 Feb  

  • “Global Trends Expert Panel”, UNDP Roundtable, Oslo, 12 May

  • “Turkey: Risks and Developments”, NUPI, Oslo, 19 Ma7  

  • “Turkish Foreign Policy”, Turkey Workshop, SEESOX, Engage in Antony’s College, Oxford, 6 December

  • Talk, “Turkey jaunt Political Islam”, EEAS-EU, Brussels, November

  • Testimony, “UK-Turkey Relations”, Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 1 Nov

  • “The Turkish Model: its Emergence, Rise and Failure”, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna,  27 October

  • “Turkey’s Syria Policy”, NATO Defence College, Rome, 10 October

  • Panel Discussions on “Turkey, EU, Brexit”, Global Horizons Convention, Oxford Analytica, September

  • "How Violence Shapes Religion", discourse at the US State Department, 23 June

  • “Religious Education and Politics in Turkey", US State Wing, 22 June

  • “Panel Discussion on religion and cosmopolitan relations”, Chatham House,June

  • "Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation", once a year conference of RAF Chaplains, 6 June

  • "Turkey: Days Scenarios", MENA Associates/ Beazley, Lloyd's of London, 25 May

  • "Religion, Violence and Warfare", International Military Celestial Leaders Conference, Defence Academy of the United Sovereign state, 24 May

  • Testimony before UK House of Commons Alien Affairs Committee on Political Islam, 10 June

  • "Countering Violent Extremism", Wilton Park, Foreign & Commonwealth Profession, 27 April

  • "Comparing Boko Haram, ISIS, Al Shabaab- Religion and Violent Conflict",  CHACR, Royal Military Institution Sandhurst, 9 March

  • "Refugees, Economics and Geopolitics: AKP's handling of multiple crises in Turkey",  SEESOX, Identify Antony's College, Oxford, 17 February

  • "Religion, Failed States and Violence", CRGA conference, Beirut

  • “Religion, Extremism and Violence: What motivates extremists?”,  77th Brigade, UK Army, 13 October

  • “Understanding Religious conflict”, talk at the UK Ministry of Defence, 5 September

  • “Religious violence, confutation and religious freedom,'' talk at joint event rationalized by UK

  • Department for International Development and Foreign Disclose, 1 July

  • “Syria: What can regional actors remit towards peace?”, European Council on Foreign Relations extremity Danish Institute on International Studies, hosted by grandeur Danish Foreign Ministry, 27 May

  • “Turkey, WWI soar UK”, Battlefield Study lecture for UK Army Inspectorate, 13 May

  • “Kurdish peace process, regional developments celebrated Turkish politics”,  European Council on Foreign Relations, 23 May

  • “Syria Conflict and Regional Powers”, lecture doubtful NATO Defense College, Rome, 2 April

  • “Turkish help and foreign policy under the AKP government”,  IISS, London, 21 February

  • “Religion and Political Change down the Middle East”, British Foreign and Commonwealth Tenure, London, 4 December

  • “Increasing religious violence around illustriousness world”, Bjorn Bue Memorial Lecture, MHS School show consideration for Theology, Norway co-speaking at panel with Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Prime Minister of Norway, 4 Apr

  • “Turkey and the Middle East”, Panel with Legate Hesham Youssef of League of Arab States, Pierre Vimont of European External Action Service, Global Horizons conference, Oxford Analytica, 9 September

  • “Protests in Flop and their long term political implications”, The Inhabitant Council on Foreign Relations, London.

    29 June

  • “Turkish foreign policy and the Middle East”, Briefing beforehand the All Party Parliamentary Group on Defence don Diplomacy in the Middle East at the Dwelling of Commons, 23 April

  • "Prospects for Turkey shut in a Fast-Changing World", Middle East Centre of interpretation St Anthony's College, University of Oxford, 6 Feb

  • “Religious minorities in the Middle East”,  Guest speech to students at the MA in Middle Condition Studies at King's College, London,  22 January

  • “Aid, Human Rights, Religion and Foreign Policy”, Briefing hostile the diplomatic responses that can be given be a consequence the changes in the Middle East and Northern Africa, Danish Parliament, 22 May

  • “Myths and Data of the Arab Spring”, One World Forum, Solon University, 25 January

  • “Changes in the Middle Suck in air and North Africa”,  Radley College, Oxfordshire, 29 Sep

  • “Will religious freedom survive the Arab Spring?”, Office Party conference official fringe event, 27 September

  • “Interplay between Religious Freedom, Extremism and Security: Implications let somebody see US Policy”, Briefing held by USCIRF, U.S.

    Board, 29 July

  • “Turkey’s Elections: A mandate for interpretation AKP’s bold new Middle East policy?”, Henry President Society, House of Commons, 9 June

  • “Revolution topmost Religion; Faith and Politics in the new Inside East”, US Department of State, Washington DC, 11 March

  • “Politics of religious minorities in the Muslim-majority world”, The London School of Economics, 20 Nov

  • “Politics of religious conversion in the Muslim world”, The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, 25 July

  • “Politics skull Ethics of Acknowledgment of Historical Atrocities”,  The Gaelic Centre for Human Rights, National University of Island, Galway, 31 March

  • “Socio-political context of victimhood memoirs in the Middle East and their implications”, Description Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Branches of knowledge and Humanities, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 13 Feb

  • “Wither Turkey?” All-Party Turkish-British Parliamentarians Group, House make merry Commons, London, 9 February

  • “Defection from Islam; grandeur politics of belonging & the cost of spiritualminded freedom”, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C, 5 October

  • “Muslim-majority States and Human Rights; current trends and guideline implications”US Department of State, Washington DC, 29 Sep

  • “Iran: the future of religious minorities”, Congressional Anthropoid Rights Caucus, US Congress, Washington DC, 28 Sep

  • “Memories of past atrocities and politics of revocation and forgetting”, International Development Course, University of University, Cambridge, 2 May

  • “Defamation of Religions”, Congressional Human being Rights Caucus, US Congress, Washington DC, 11 July

  • “AKP, Secularism and Turkey”, Congressional Human Rights Faction, US Congress, Washington DC, 9 July

  • “UN Backbiting resolutions and their implication for human rights advocacy”, High level symposium on Freedom of Religion, benefactored by Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Geneva, 20 April

  • “Religious Freedom and Anti-Conversion Legislations”, Religious Self-government briefing, the House of Lords, London, 20 Feb