Ryan Gingeras

Over a year ago there were concerns that Turkey's provocations and threats in the Aegean could turn into conflict. Over the last year, Turkey's President Erdogan has pulled a 180 degree shift in policy, de-escalating tensions.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have "less of an appetite for tensions with Greece," according to Ryan Gingeras, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, in an interview with Kathimerini.

Ryan Gingeras, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and an expert on Turkish, Balkan, and Middle East history, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkey's centenary and its broader implications, both within and outside Turkey.

Whether the US takes the side of Greece or Turkey in the event of a military conflict between the two countries, it would have huge consequences on how the American government and its different branches function, argues Ryan Gingeras, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in California.

Expert Ryan Gingeras joins Thanos Davelis to look into Turkey's renewed threats against Greece, and break down what a a Turkish assault against Greece in the Aegean would mean for the US and its position as a mediator between Turkey and Greece.

The legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still bitterly contested in today's Turkey. Approaching the centenary of the republic's establishment, the process of Westernization, secularization and modernization led by Turkey's nationalist founding father still provides the reference against which various political movements - whether sympathetic or antagonistic - define themselves. 

'Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Heir to an Empire' by Ryan Gingeras (Oxford University Press, 212 pages, $17)

Organized crime and narcotics smuggling in Turkey are analogous to the role of oil in countries like Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, Professor Ryan Gingeras tells the Hürriyet Daily News, discussing his new book ?Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey?