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Kemal Gürüz is the former President of the Turkish Council of Higher Education, a cabinet-level post to which he was appointed by Turkish President Süleyman Demirel in 1995 and in which he served until 2003.

Dr. Gürüz spent 2004-05 as a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Dr. Gürüz also served as president of the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council.

Nicholas Rice, a writer currently based in London, conducted these interviews.

In addition to this work, he has produced a UNFPA report, “Unseen, Unheard and Unreported,” about donors’ perceptions of the fight against sexual and gender based violence worldwide. He has also co-edited Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” for Barnes and Noble Classics.

He holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor’s degree in Russian from Oxford University.

Nicholas Rice: After five years of extreme tension between I