Profile | Halil Magnus Karaveli

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Halil Magnus Karaveli
Nonresident Senior Fellow | The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute


H. Magnus Karaveli is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, and Managing Editor of the Turkey Analyst, in which he writes a biweekly column.

From 1991 to 2007, Mr. Karaveli served as editorial writer at the Swedish daily Östgöta Correspondenten. His publications include Prospects for a 'Torn' Turkey: A Secular and Unitary Future?, (2008); Turkiet – en nygammal stormakt? (Turkey – a reborn great power?), Swedish Institute of International affairs (1993) and Landet mellan öst och väst – en historisk-politisköversikt (The country between East and West – a historical and political overview), in Turkiet – Bro eller barriär mellan Europa och Asien (Turkey – Bridge or Barrier between Europe and Asia) (1997).

Mr. Karaveli has published widely in Swedish press, including essays in the leading Swedish dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet about Turkey’s Kurdish question, Kemal Atatürk’s legacy, Europe’s Islamist challenge and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Mr. Karaveli has in particular stressed the importance of secularism as a lever for democratization, most recently in the policy journal Europe’s world. His op-eds have also been published in the Turkish press.

Mr. Karaveli holds a B.Sc. in Political science from the University of Gothenburg, and has been awarded the Swedish-Turkish Friendship Award.

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Mr. Halil Magnus Karaveli
Turkey Initiative
CACI & SRSP
Institute for Security & Development Policy
SE/13130 Stockholm-Nacka, Sweden