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Dear friend of EMET,

We at EMET are proud of the diverse range of webinars that we have been able to share with you, the EMET Community, for the last four months. We have featured renowned speakers such as David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr ([link removed]) , highly appraised authors and columnists Caroline ([link removed]) Glick ([link removed]) and Melanie Phillips ([link removed]) , General Yossi Kuperwasser and ([link removed]) Dan Diker ([link removed]) of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Efraim Inbar ([link removed]) of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Mark Dubowitz and Aykan Erdemir ([link removed]) of the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies, Martin Kramer ([link removed]) of the Shalem College, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger ([link removed]) , Alex Traiman ([link removed]) of JNS.org, David Wurmser ([link removed]) of the Center for Security Policy, Joseph Humire ([link removed]) of the Center for a Free, Secure Society, Michael Makovsky ([link removed]) of JINSA, Shoshana Bryen ([link removed]) of the Jewish Policy Center, plus other such notables as Hussein Aboubakr and Cynthia Farahat ([link removed]) , Charles Jacobs ([link removed]) , Harold Rhode ([link removed]) , and many more.

Our webinars have covered topics such as the recent spate of bombings in Iran, the recent Israeli elections ([link removed]) , the effort to combat global anti-Semitism ([link removed]) , the moral clarity of the IDF ([link removed]) , Iran’s ([link removed]) presence and patterns around the world, and much more ([link removed]) .

If you have enjoyed EMET’s recent webinars, we kindly ask for your support today, so that we can bring more special content and speakers to you, tomorrow.

Despite the ongoing challenging circumstances in which we have all found ourselves due to the pandemic, we at EMET have never ceased striving to provide high quality events and resources. We know that perceptions create policy, and therefore it is our goal to provide the public, including members of Congress, with the knowledge and education necessary to make well-informed decisions.

If you have missed any of our webinars, or would like to share your favorite webinars with others, all of EMET’s past events are available for your viewing
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We look forward to continuing to provide you with webinars on important and current issues, featuring prominent and knowledgeable speakers from around the world. We appreciate your continued support in making this goal a reality.

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The EMET Team


** Don't Miss EMET's upcoming webinar featuring Dr. Aykan Erdemir!
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Wednesday, July 22nd | 12 pm EDT

Talking Turkey: What Exactly are Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Ambitions in the Middle East?

Last week, the world was stunned to watch Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s move to convert the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque, reversing the 1934 decision by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the secular republic of Turkey.

What many missed is that Turkey’s Islamist strongman also vowed that “the resurrection of Hagia Sophia heralds the liberation of the al-Aqsa Mosque.”

This is not the first time that Erdogan has called the Islamic world to unite against Israel and “liberate” Jerusalem.

Do Erdogan’s latest moves and rhetoric mark a new phase in his Islamist policies? Will the Turkish strongman pose a new threat to Israel? What are Erdogan’s ambitions in the Middle East and beyond?

Here to speak about this is our good friend and FDD Scholar, Aykan Erdemir.


Dr. Aykan Erdemir is the Senior Director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is a former member of the Turkish Parliament who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in Turkey and the Middle East, Dr. Erdemir has been at the forefront of the struggle against violent extremism, religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech. He is a founding and steering committee member of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief, and a drafter of and signatory to the Oslo Charter for Freedom of Religion or Belief as well as a signatory legislator to the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism.

He also serves on Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities. Dr. Erdemir was awarded the Stefanus Prize for Religious Freedom in 2016 and the First Freedom Award of the Hellenic American Leadership Council in 2019 in recognition of his advocacy for minority rights and religious freedoms. He has received his BA in International Relations from Bilkent University, Ankara, and MA in Middle Eastern Studies and PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Erdemir is co-author of the book, Antagonistic Tolerance: Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites and Spaces (Routledge, 2016) and FDD report, “Brothers in Arms: The Consolidation of the Turkey-Qatar Axis” (2019).
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