Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale University, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College. He has also served as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and Foreign Affairs and has been a columnist for Hürriyet Daily News and CNN Public Global Square. He is the author of, most recently, The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey. On Twitter: @SonerCagaptay.