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OTES Events

OTES events are cosponsored and organized by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. For questions, please contact abbasiprogram [at] stanford.edu (subject: OTES%20events) (abbasiprogram[at]stanford[dot]edu).

Upcoming Events

DateWednesday, October 23, 2024
4:30 pm, 4:30pmto 6:00 pm, 6pm
Location:
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Philippines (C330)
Speaker
Gizem Zencirci

Since coming to power, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP has made poverty relief a central part of their political program.

Past Events

DateThursday, May 30, 2024
4:30 pm, 4:30pmto 6:00 pm, 6pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Yektan Turkyilmaz, Ali Yaycıoğlu, Ayça Alemdaroğlu

On March 31, 2024, the opposition achieved a significant victory in the municipal elections, challenging the authoritarian regime led by President Erdoğan and his allies in Turkey.

DateFriday, May 24, 2024
12:00 pm, 12pmto 1:15 pm, 1:15pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Yektan Turkyilmaz

Turkyilmaz’s research shows that the catastrophe of the Armenian Genocide occurred immediately after a period when the Ottoman Armenian communities and their…

DateThursday, May 2, 2024
4:00 pm, 4pmto 5:30 pm, 5:30pm
Location:
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Reuben Hills, Encina Hall East, 2nd floor

In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000…

DateWednesday, April 24, 2024
5:30 pm, 5:30pmto 7:00 pm, 7pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

The centennial of the 1923 exchange between Muslims in Greece and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic.

DateFriday, April 19, 2024
12:00 pm, 12pmto 1:30 pm, 1:30pm
Location:
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
William J. Perry Conference Room, C231

Turkey is holding its municipal elections on March 31, 2024.