Turkish Prime Minister to Address Belfer Center Forum

Press Release

January 23, 2004

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Caspian Studies

CAMBRIDGE, MA – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, will deliver a public address Jan. 30 at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  His address, “Democracy in the Middle East, Pluralism in Europe: The Turkish Perspective,” will begin at 6 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge.  The prime minister’s visit has been arranged by the Belfer Center's Caspian Studies Program.

Erdogan was elected prime minister in March 2003. He previously served as mayor of Istanbul, where he was credited with fighting municipal corruption and improving the environment.  Erdogan was once imprisoned for sedition in the country he now governs after reading a poem about Islam in public.

Members of the press may contact John Neffinger at (617) 495-5468 to arrange to cover the event. 

For further details, please contact the Kennedy School Forum Office at (617) 495-1380. 

For more information about this publication please contact the Forum Events at 617-495-1360.

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