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It is my great pleasure vertu introduce todays speaker David Phillips for director of the Columbia Institute of humanrights to talk about his new book to talk about the erdogan dictatorship who has long experienced through three president s in the state department from United Nations office in with his own scholarship he has written numerous topics on the turkish armenians reconciliation and o course, years of practice as well as for wall diplomacy. But today i will engage in discussion with parts of the book the and open that up to questions from the audience. So tell us david about what inspired you to write this and why the pressing need now concert with your book an uncertain ally . Guest i always get a message from someone in turkey lamenting their circumstances they have been fired from their job, the newspaper column has been taken away from them. I think 30 or 40 times over the years i am so disappointed with the trend that turkey has taken an 33 they always enjoyed a special o
Good afternoon everyone. My name is alex cooley, director of the Harriman Institute here at columbia university. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, david phillips, who is the director of the program on peace building and rights at Columbia Institute for the study of human rights for a talk about his new book, an uncertain ally turkey under erdogans dictatorship. David has long experience in both academic and policy settings. He has been advisor to three president s and the state department. He is also as a Senior Advisor to United Nations office for the coronation of humanitarian affairs. In his own scholarship he has written on numerous topics but books on iraq, a book on turkish armenian reconciliation and of course years of practice in various levels of track two as well as formal diplomacy. So the way were going to proceed to date is ill engage in some discussion with david over the key arguments in parts of the book, then we will open it up to questions and answe