Empowering Global Diasporas, Promoting Global Collaboration
July 19, 2017 2:48 pm Leave your thoughtsPeople in the diaspora automatically become “citizen diplomats” since they are showing a human face to their country. As an...
Author Archives for selma bardakci
Building Bridges and Empowering Young Leaders
July 10, 2017 3:21 pm Leave your thoughtsCheck my video about building bridges. I am building bridges through empowering Syrian refugee women. The name of our project...
Making U.S. – Turkey Relations Great Again?
April 27, 2017 12:52 pm Leave your thoughtsTurkey held its most important referendum in history last Sunday, April 16. President Erdogan’s dream of an executive presidency seemed to come...
My interview with Voice of America about my amazing Atlas Corps experiences
April 22, 2017 4:14 pm Leave your thoughtsPlease check my interview with Voice of America about my Atlas Corps Fellowship experiences. Here is the link of my...
Atlas Corps Fellows: The Young Leaders Who, Without Complaining, Take Initiative
January 19, 2017 2:04 pm Leave your thoughts“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve...
Global Leaders Addressing Violent Extremism
October 13, 2016 3:52 pm Leave your thoughtsCheck our panel and my speech about the discussion focusing on how young leaders from across the globe are working to...
An Atlas Corps Fellow’s Take on President Obama’s Last Eid Reception
August 15, 2016 3:19 pm Leave your thoughtsYoung professional leaders and change makers from Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, and Turkey were invited to the White House for...
Turkey’s Coup Catch-22
July 19, 2016 4:41 pm Leave your thoughtsThe progress made weeks after an ISIL-initiated terrorist attack at Istanbul’s international airport, Turkish and U.S. leaders came together for a renewed...
An Unholy Attack In a Holy Time: Turkey Suffers, The World Mourns
July 2, 2016 3:11 pm Leave your thoughtsThis week’s ISIL-initiated terrorist attack in the heart of Turkey’s main transit hub, Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, has garnered significant international attention. Unfortunately,...
How to De-Polarize and De-Personalize The U.S.-Turkish Relationship
May 3, 2016 11:00 am Leave your thoughtsWeeks later, Washington is still abuzz from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit for the Nuclear Security Summit. It was...
Meeting with Justice Sotomayor? Really?
April 17, 2016 11:07 pm Leave your thoughtsPart of my role in Istanbul was working at the American Studies Center, and during graduate school I had taken...
What Went Wrong for Women After the Arab Spring?
March 4, 2016 4:03 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Arab Spring constitutes one of the most prominent political developments of the 21st century. In the revolutions that took...