Baskin Oran#
| Membership Number: | 3239 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.baskinoran.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since September 2006 Professor emeritus, Faculty of Political Science (FPS), Ankara University
- Since February 2000 Columnist, Agos (Armenian weekly newspaper, Istanbul)
- Since April 2007 Columnist, Radikal (daily newspaper, Istanbul)
- October-December 2006 South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), Visiting Fellow, Programme on Contemporary Turkey
- 1998 - 2006 Professor and head of International Relations chair at the FPS
- 1999 - 2009 National Liaison Officer to ECRI, Council of Europe
- 1999 - 2006 Commentator, SBS Radio, Australia
- Since 2001 Member of Prime Ministry's Consultative Council on Human Rights, Chairman of Cultural and Minority Rights Committee.(This Council is de facto defunct as it was no more convened since the publication of my "Cultural and Minority Rights Report" in October 2004)
- 1990 - 2006 Professor of international relations at FPS
- 1969 - 1982 Assistant Professor at FPS
Fields of Scholarship
- Turkish foreign policy
- Identity and nationality
- Religion-state relations: secularism and laicism
- Minorities in Turkey
- Nationalism
- Turkish minorities abroad
- World minorities
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Human Rights Association, Ayse Nur Zarakolu Award for Freedom of Thought and Expression
- 2006 Political Science Students' Society Special Award
- 2002 Political Science Students' Society Best Foreign Policy Commentator Award
