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Inside the Middle East: Amb. Francis Ricciardone on the Turkish Elections

October 30, 2015 Series: Inside the Middle East

Excerpt from an October 16 installment of “Inside the Middle East: Q&A,” with Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone, Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Atlantic Council Vice President and Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, on the upcoming national elections on November 1 in Turkey, including the role of civil society and his thoughts on the current state of Turkish politics.

Watch the clip from the interview with Ambassador Ricciardone, conducted by Kevin Moss, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and Master's Candidate at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, here:

For more about the Harvard Journal of Middle East Politics and Policy (JMEPP), click here.

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For Academic Citation: “Inside the Middle East: Amb. Francis Ricciardone on the Turkish Elections.” News, , October 30, 2015.
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